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Cheikh Anta Diop

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The primary reason for the success of Islam in Black Africa, with one exception, consequently stems from the fact that it was promulgated peacefully, at first by solitary Arabo-Berber Travelers to certain Black kings and notables, who then spread it about them to those under their jurisdiction... What is to be emphasized here is the peaceful nature of this conversion, regardless of the legend surrounding it. (Precolonial Black Africa, page 163.)

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African religions, more or less forgotten, were in the process of atrophying [dying] and being emptied of their spiritual content, their former deep metaphysics. The jumble of empty forms they had left behind could not compete with Islam on the moral or rational level. And it was on that latter level of rationality that the victory of Islam was most striking. That was the fourth cause of its success. (Ibid, page 166)

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During the period of our study, from the third to the seventeenth centuries, not one conquest was ever launched by way of the Nile...Nor was there ever an Arab conquest of Mozambique or any other East African country. (Ibid, page 101)

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The Arabs in these areas, who became great religious leaders, arrived as everywhere else individually and settled in peacefully, they owe their influence and latter acceptance to spiritual and religious virtues. (Ibid, page 102)

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The Arab conquests dear to sociologists are necessary to their theories but did not exist in reality. To this day no reliable historical documents substantiate such theories. (Ibid, page 102)

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I agree with most of that. That still doesn't invalidate whatever religions predated Al Islam and coexists with it today.

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Even the largely Islamic nations of Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Northern Nigeria, Guinea, etc. still adhere to their age-old traditions.

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The most devout muslims in those countries still honor their ancestors and their ancestral traditions.

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The main reason they embraced Islam in the first place was that they saw no conflict between Din Islam and the ways of their fathers.It's

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safe to say that the latter holds more relevance for them in THIS life. The same holds true for those Africans in the New World that embraced Christianity so readily. They saw through the dogma and doctrine and recognized it for what it was at its core-African!

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And I did answer your questions about "ancestor worship." Read my post again.

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Peace.