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 ...

Some have turned to Islam and considered it the only faith that did not have blood on its hands during the ... me to deeply question my beliefs,” Manirakiza tells The Africa Report. “I converted to ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of ... urged him to “fight against” the desire to convert to Islam, a newly discovered letter has revealed.