Religion in Africa [OC]

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27 comments
  1. Ummmmm…this is lacking a lot. In a lot of different ways too.

  2. Hinduism was a bit surprising. Apparently, 67% of Mauritius’ inhabitants are of Indian descent.

  3. So every traditional african religions is not represented?
    And don’t hit me with, “X an Y are not a religion its not on that precise list made to exclude most religious practices..”

  4. no population density involved makes this data less beautiful

  5. I mean this is one way to start a regional conflict. It might not surprise many, but this is a little more nuanced than this….

  6. The thing that gets me is how wildly quickly Christianity spread in the last century after colonialism. Before 1800, it was only present in Ethiopia, the Kongo kingdom, and South Africa.

  7. There isn’t one for all of the white area, Atlanteanism

  8. They got this post on a tighter schedule than my transit

  9. Bad graph. This is so oversimplified and boiled down I don’t know where to start.

  10. This is majority religion. One region could be 99.9% and another 2% in a place with 99 other religions each being <2%. Not very meaningful

  11. British colonies, French Colonies, Arab colonies, Ethiopia.

  12. European diplomats looking at this and thinking we could just divide Africa up into 3 nice big countries, should be fine

  13. Labeling Eswatini as majority Catholic seems inaccurate, if you believe Wikipedia.

  14. What “data” is this supposed to represent, exactly?

  15. I’ve been in cities split Catholic Churches on one side and mosques on the other in an area of Kenya that is fully blue. I think there’s a lot more overlap to the point some areas would look more speckled.

  16. TIL there’s no African native / tribal religions in Africa. 0%

  17. No mention of native religions? Various forms of animism? Yoruba? Etc.

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