Yes. Many of the Melanesian s are Christians with some Muslims particularly in West Papua, and Papua New Guinea where Melanesians are converting from Christianity to Islam.
No. Melanesians are no more related to Africans than an European is.
Melanesians are Australoid.
Melanesians are Australoid.
Melanesians and Polynesians.
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Australoid is a racial category, consisting of the Aboriginal Australians, Melanesians, Negritos, several Indian Adivasi and the Vedda.
Melanesians
Melanesia is a region of the Pacific Ocean that includes several islands, such as Vanuatu, New Guinea, and Fiji.
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Remains argued today with scholars divided between Melaanesians as the first arrivals and a later Polynesian arrival that subjugateted and eventually killed off or assimilated the Melanesians into their society. In any case by the time that Europeans arrived the Melanesians either no longer existed or were an enslaved minority maintained as livestock.
Black birding was the abduction of thousands of Melanesians to be forced into slavery working the sugar cane fields of Queensland.
We don't know the name of the person or persons who first explored this region, but many anthropologists believe it was the Melanesians.