Firtly the Christian faith came to North Africa in the first century and spread to Sudan and Ethiopia by the fourth century. Faith still survives in Egypt, Eritrea, and Ethiopia as the subsets of Eastern Orthodoxy. In the fifteenth century, the Christian faith again was presented again in tropical Africa and now has around 340 million Christians in Africa.
On the other hand, Islam, is the second most widely followed religion in Africa, the continent reached in the seventh century from the Mediterranean coast. During a certain period of time, the spread of Islam came along the East Coast and the interior areas of West Africa. Today, the followers of Islam are found in all parts of Africa and are around 285 million.
In fact Africans profess a wide variety of religious belief, Christianity and Islam to the head. Approximately 46.3% of all Africans are Christian and the other 40.5% are Muslims. Approximately 11.8% of Africans still mainly indigenous African religions. A small number of Africans is Hindu, has belief or tradition Judaica, as the Beta Israel and the Lemba tribe.
In conclusion the indigenous African religions tend to revolve around the ancestor worship and animism. A common thread in traditional belief systems was the division of the spiritual world in "fruitful" and "harmful". Spirits are usually beneficial, as it is considered, including the spirits of ancestors to help their descendants, and powerful spirits that protect entire communities of the disaster or attacks by enemies, while the spirits "harmful" include the souls of the victims of murders that were buried without proper burial rites, and strong spirits, which by means of hostile spirit causing the disease among their enemies. While the effect of these early forms of worship continues to have a profound influence, belief systems have been developed as they act interact with other religions.
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