NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — A June PeaceTech Lab report found that recent converts to Islam in East Africa are prone to ... said some former Christians do not want to convert to Islam but do so ...

did not try and convert the King and his people. At the end of the day, spiritual faith was not the only issue determining whether Christianity or Islam succeeded in converting people in Africa.

Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process ... The majority of the people did not convert until the 18th century, when a series of jihads were launched by the Fulbe, tired ...