ISLAM OR CHRISTIANITY? THE CHOICES OF THE WAWA AND THE KWANJA OF CAMEROON. From: Africa | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: Gausset, Quentin | COPYRIGHT 1999 Edinburgh University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The speed with which Islam and Christianity have spread in sub-Saharan Africa since colonisation is remarkable and has raised several kinds of question. The first is why groups converted when and where they did. In Adamawa, Cameroon, rural populations converted to Islam or Christianity mainly during the 1950s and 1960s. Such was the case with the Wawa and the Kwanja, two neighbouring groups living in Banyo District (See Fig. 1) and numbering about 4,000 and 9,000 people respectivel...

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