ABSTRACT
Africa was the second continent that Islam spread into, which explains why almost one-third of world Muslim population resides in this continent. Islam then spread slowly in much of the continent through trade and preaching. By the ninth century Muslim Sultanates started being established in the Horn of Africa, and by the twelfth century the Kilwa Muslim Dynasty spread as far south as Mozambique. Islam only crossed deeper to Malawi and Congo in the second half of the nineteenth century under Zanzibar Sultanate. Islam entered the southern part during the eleventh century by Abdullah bnu Yassin and Abu Bakr bnu Omar, the founders of the Almoravid Dynasty. Islam was brought to the islands in mid 1990s by immigrants from Guinea Bissau, Senegal and Nigeria. The traders, who were mostly from Dyula, established Muslim communities in the northern districts which became centers of Islamization for the whole region.
