Africa

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Central

Home to the Congo Basin, the second largest rainforest after the Amazon. African spiritual belief is often blended with Christianity or Islam and all about the connection you have with the land. Ancestors don't die spiritually, they live on and people ask for their guidance in times of crisis or illness. Some Central Africans who call themselves Christian or Muslim personally take part in animist rituals, belief coexisting.

East

A mix of Christianity and Islam, East Africa is home to one of the oldest forms of Christianity, adopted by the Ethiopian Kingdom of Aksum. Though there are dozens of regional languages, Swahili dominates and is spoken by a vast amount of East Africans. East Africa is often called the 'Cradle of Humanity' due to some of the oldest human fossils being found there.

North

North Africa is seperated from the rest of the continent through the Saharan Desert, a giant, desolate region. Its history is closely connected to Europe and Asia with the rise of the various Arabic caliphates and Carthage. The dominant religion of North Africa is Islam, spread to them by the Arabs in the Asian west.

South

The region of South Africa had strong empires like Great Zimbabwe and Mapungubwe thriving with the trade of gold before colonization. After colonization, the region has had struggles for racial equality, particularly against apartheid and the Europeans/those of European descent living in Africa hoarding power of their respective countries and segregating the races of African black and European white, most notably in the country of South Africa and Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) until not so long ago. The region was wanted by both the Dutch (who had settled there before the British) and Great Britain due to its strategic position serving as the main route from Europe to Asia with the British ultimately claiming South Africa for its own.