North Africa was christian? The amazigh were animists, and Islam was present before any large scale invasion, and was mostly spread by amazigh tribes themselves. (at least in the case of Morocco)
Egypt was a major player in early Christianity -- one of the five patriarchs was in Alexandria. Carthage and Tunisia were also largely Latin Christian.
Well, Egypt certainly was heavily Christian. I had assumed that most of North Africa was, because it had been Roman, and the Roman Empire was heavily Christian post-Constantine.
You are correct that most all of Roman North Africa was Christianized. Augustine, for example, was a Numidian, and writes a lot about religious perspectives in North Africa.
Morocco was really peripheral to Roman Africa. But the coastal band of Eastern Algeria and more importantly the entire Tunisian plain was urban, Roman, had a large number of Latin-speaking urban center, was one of the richest area of the Roman empire because it was an agricultural powerhouse and was one of the epicenters of Early Christianity.
