How might Africa be different if Islam was not there?

Answer 1

The world without Islam would be like a barren place with no plants and sunlight.

The ignorance befor Islam says it all when people used to burry their daughters and the sons were remain alive.There were many cruelities in the society.Ignorance would have prevailed all round the world but when the Sun of Islam rose it lited each n every part of planet.So then the Leaders like UMAR and truthness like ABU BAKAR and Ghani like Usman and BRAVE like ALI (may peace be upone all them) were born.

Answer 2

Greco-Roman culture was all the rage, as the following two features came into play:

• Alexander the great of Macedonia had gone on a long campaign to spread Greek culture and religion across West Asia until he reached India and managed to encourage a fusion of Greek and Indian religious mores.
• After Alexander died and his empire gradually split apart in his wake, the Roman Republic eventually came to assimilate the cultures of the breakaway empires, resulting in the Greek religious system being installed as part of the Roman state religion, with the Imperial cult becoming part and parcel of the public observance of the religion.

During the period of Roman rule, however, a number of alternative sects (many of which were called "mysteries") were established in order to better appeal to the emotional demands of Roman citizens and subjects, among which was Christianity.

So taking Christianity out of the timeline from this point, meaning that Abrahamic religion would be confined to portions of West Asia populated by Judeans (also known later as Jews) and Samaritans (of whom only less than 1,000 exist in Israel and the Palestinian territories today) means that an overly Greco-Roman-oriented religious belief system would have continued and split into other sects which would have intersected with other polytheistic systems of belief as other systems would be promoted through imperial expansions in Europe, Asia and Africa, and monotheism of the Abrahamic sort would not be anywhere near as popular and widespread as it is today.

It is not known if Indian systems, such as Buddhism, would have spread to the Mediterranean world some time after the collapse of the Roman Empire by means of proselytization, but if such a series of events were to take place in the same way that Buddhism, or a significant derivative thereof, was spread to such wide extents in East Asia, we would have had a similar syncretic synthesis of Mediterranean polytheistic folk religions with Buddhist observances and cultural permeation being entrenched into the cultures of the affected regions. Plus, if observances of Indian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism were carried over to Eastern Europe by way of both wandering clans (as was the case with the Romani around the 11th century) and travelling troupes of missionaries (as was the case with missionaries who travelled to Russia in the days of Ashoka the Great), there is a likelyhood that much more importation of Indian religions such as Buddhism would be installed by various means throughout the Mediterranean region and beyond.

Remember the Bible shaped American history. Christians would possibly be Jews.

Answer 3

Islam is such a driving force in the regions of Africa where it is practiced that it is almost impossible to imagine what Africa would look like without Islam. Probably the best guess is to look at Christian Africa to get a sense of it.