Guinea is a Muslim country on the east coast of Africa. The name of the capital is Conakry. Muslims make up 69.1 percent of the country's population and Christians 8.7 percent. The population of Guinea is one crore 25 lakh 26 thousand 440 (July 2020).
The people of this poverty-stricken Muslim country are victims of war, conflict, violence, poverty, disease and extreme exploitation. Conakry, the capital of Guinea, is one of the most expensive cities in the world, based on housing costs, travel, basic necessities, food, clothing and leisure spending. The city is one of the top 10 most expensive cities in Africa.
Islam is the largest religion in Africa. But for various reasons, the Muslims of these regions could not maintain their position and progress in that way. As a result, Muslims in these countries have somehow survived with their existence.
The city of Timbuktu in the Republic of Guinea is the most important Muslim city in the country.
Islam first entered Guinea in the eleventh century under the Almoravid ruler of Morocco. In addition, Muslim scholars and travelers travel from the west coast of Africa to Guinea.
In the sixteenth century, Guinea became one of the centers of Islamic trade, with Guineans trading with Muslim merchants in Nigeria. Many of those merchants married local women and settled in Guinea. Needless to say, this is how the number of Muslims in Guinea continues to grow.
Another important thing happened in Guinea in the sixteenth century, when the local Fang tribe came from Cameroon and started living in Guinea, the influence of the local Muslim population aroused interest in Islam among them. These Fang tribes then began to convert to Islam. Naturally its effects began to fall on other tribes of Guinea. One by one they also became attracted to Islam.
The spread of Islam slowed down with the onset of European aggression in the nineteenth century. Especially when the Spanish occupied Guinea in 179, the spread of Islam came to a complete halt. During the Spanish rule, the tide of Christianity came in Guinea, and it became illegal to pronounce the name of Islam. There is no end to the political and ethnic civil war in Guinea for the hostile regime of the Spanish rulers. Until 1995, Guinea was a volatile country. After gaining independence from the Spaniards in 1967, internal unrest did not abate. Then in 1995 the American company discovered petroleum in Guinea. After that, Guinea's situation began to change little by little. However, it did not improve the condition of the local Muslims. Yet Muslims cannot participate in any high government job. They are not allowed in the city. They have no economic, political or social freedom.
The life of the Muslims in Guinea is quite harsh. They have no political representatives. Even the language of the country is not Persian or Arabic, the locals speak Spanish, French, Portuguese and Bantu.
It's a pity that muslims are only concerned about muslims.