Tolerance and Tension

Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa

POLL · April 15, 2010

Western Entertainment and Morality
Have Western music, movies, and television hurt morality in your country?

Select a response option and use the arrows to sort the data alphabetically, by total population, among Christians or among Muslims.

% responding Have hurt moralityHave not hurt moralityNo opinion
CountryTotal PopulationAmong ChristiansAmong Muslims
Botswanabar 59bar 60bar NA
Cameroonbar 83bar 85bar 73
Chadbar 70bar 71bar 69
Djiboutibar 63bar NAbar 64
DR Congobar 62bar 64bar 64
Ethiopiabar 59bar 58bar 64
Ghanabar 74bar 74bar 72
Guinea Bissaubar 49bar 50bar 47
Kenyabar 73bar 72bar 77
Liberiabar 65bar 69bar 66
Malibar 66bar NAbar 67
Mozambiquebar 73bar 73bar 77
Nigeriabar 59bar 53bar 64
Rwandabar 68bar 69bar NA
Senegalbar 72bar NAbar 75
South Africabar 46bar 46bar NA
Tanzaniabar 80bar 80bar 80
Ugandabar 73bar 72bar 80
Zambiabar 67bar 68bar NA

Complete Question Wording

Q30. Which comes closer to describing your view? Western music, movies and television have hurt morality in our country, OR Western music, movies and television have NOT hurt morality in our country?
Read the survey methodology and the topline questionnaire

Notes

In countries where there were too few interviews with either Muslims or Christians, that subpopulation was not analyzed. Figures may not add to 100 due to rounding.

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