The World's Muslims: Africa

The Pew Research Center published on 30 April 2013 a book length study titled "The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics, and Society."  The report examines the social and political views of Muslims around the world.  It is based on public opinion surveys between 2008 and 2012 in 39 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.  African countries included in the survey are Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, DRC, Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Ghana, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.

The study looks at sharia, religion and politics (democracy, religious freedom, Islamic political parties, extremism and suicide bombing), morality, women in society (veiling, divorce, inheritance, and women's rights), relations among Muslims, interfaith relations and religion, science and popular culture. 

Christianity and Islam in Africa

The highly respected Pew Research Center has published a series of reports on religion that add to our knowledge about the subject in Africa. In 2010, it published a study titled "Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa." The study noted that while sub-Saharan Africa has almost twice as many Christians as Muslims, on the entire African continent the two faiths are roughly balanced with 400 to 500 million followers each. Since northern Africa is heavily Muslim and southern Africa is heavily Christian, the great meeting place is in the middle, a 4,500-mile swath from Somalia in the east to Senegal in the west. Click here to read the study on sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2011, the Pew Research Center published a report titled "Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population." Click here to read the report.

The Pew Research Center's most recent contribution appeared on 9 August 2012 and is titled "The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity." Click here to read the executive summary.