Religion in Africa
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Religion in Africa is multifaceted and has a major influence on art, culture and philosophy. Today, the continent's various populations and individuals are mostly adherents of Christianity, Islam, and
A Vodun altar in Abomey, Benin
An early 20th-century Yoruba divination board
The Hanging Church of Cairo, Egypt.
The Great Mosque of Kairouan, erected in 670 by the Arab general Uqba Ibn Nafi, is the oldest mosque in North Africa. Kairouan, Tunisia.
Africa
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 including adjacent islands, it covers around 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total
Ruins of Great Zimbabwe, which flourished in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries
Africa seen from the Moon on The Blue Marble photograph, 1972
Lake kariba
The savanna of Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania