Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...

During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in Africa to secure British control of colonial territories. These included the: Ashanti Wars in West Africa. Matabele Wars in South Africa.

and laws based on religious values. Not so in sub-Saharan Africa. In a recently published research paper, David Jeffery-Schwikkard, who studies secularism, argues that sub-Saharan African ...