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African traditional religious belief are in a supreme creator, spiritual beliefs veneration of the dead, and use of magic and traditional medicines. Western interaction has influenced African religious traditions and innovations in Africa. The fifteenth century saw the Christian missionaries become the first wave of Europeans to invade and occupy African lands. The missionaries relied on the backing of European medicinal remedies and colonial military power. They used the local languages and converted Africans from their ancestral religions to Christianity, missionaries paved the way for early modernisation and Western colonialism.

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