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Muslims in Togo represent between 13. A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion TOGO was a Japanese roller coaster design company famous for inventing the Stand-up roller coaster. 7 and 55% of the national population. Islam came to Togo about the same time as it did much of West Africa. For other meanings including people named 'Islam' see Islam (disambiguation. West Africa or Western Africa is the Westernmost Region of the African Continent.

History

Islam was first introduced into West Africa south of the Sahara, across the salt and gold trade routes. The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى aṣ-ṣaḥrā´ al-kubra, "The Great Desert" is the world's largest hot Desert and the world's second largest Islamicized Berber and Tuareg merchants traveled the trans-Saharan trade routes. Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. The Tuareg (also Twareg or Touareg, Amazigh: Imuhagh / Itargiyen, besides regional ethnyms are a Nomadic As time passed, Muslim clerics and scholars — teaching their beliefs and setting up places of worship along the routes — accompanied traders on their journeys. The Hausa and the Fulani, a traditionally nomadic group, traveled all over West Africa, taking their Muslim beliefs to places such as present-day Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea (pronounced /ˈgɪni/ République de Guinée is a country in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire

Demographics

Estimates on the number of Muslims in Togo tend to vary considerably depending on the source. For example, according to Wikipedia's Islam in Africa page, Togo is approximately 13. The precise number of Muslims in Africa is unknown as statistics regarding religious demography in Africa are incomplete 7% Muslim, while the CIA Factbook the figure is 20%. According to islamic web muslims are 55% of the population around 2,513,792 out of 4,570,530 this was estimated by the year 1998.

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