Islam was a modernizing influence in Africa, it imposed order among different societies, strengthened the powers of governments, and broke down ethnic loyalties. Islam is one of Africa's most widely ...

The 2016 Posture Statement from U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) underscores that factors associated with the Islamic State’s brand of cyber-facilitated extremism are emerging in Africa. AFRICOM’s ...

The Islamic University of Niger was founded in 1986, and the Islamic University in Uganda opened its doors two years later. The International University of Africa, in Sudan, previously a ...

Islamic radicals had no objections to accepting infidel cash for their oil, and they eventually used all that wealth to attack the infidel states, as well as seeking to gain control of Moslem majority ...

BAMAKO, April 29 (Reuters) - Malian forces are back in control of a town on the Niger border that Islamic State-linked ...

AFA copy 39088019024314 gift from Janet Stanley. "Although immensely varied, African Islam, Charlotte A. Quinn and Frederick Quinn demonstrate, is defined by three overarching beliefs. First, African ...

“It’s almost like Islamic fintech and the financially-excluded Muslim population doesn’t exist,” says Wahida, founder of the Islamic Fintech Hub of Sub Saharan Africa in Mombasa, Kenya. Within the ...

Lit by a sunbeam slanting through his broken roof, a 16-year-old Islamic student chants verses from a brittle, yellowing page — one of an estimated 1 million ancient texts that experts say are ...

The threat from Islamic State and al-Qaida extremists and their affiliates is most intense in parts of Africa, and risks are growing in Syria, which both groups view as a “a strategic base for ...

Introduction : the Islamization of "tradition" and "modernity" / Eva Evers Rosander -- Sub-Saharan Africa and the wider world of Islam : historical and contemporary perspectives / John Hunwick -- ...