November 2025 ...

REPORT ON AFRICA

STATISTICS OF LEVEL OF EVANGELISM IN AFRICA.

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LIST OF PEOPLE GROUPS LEAST EVANGELISED IN AFRICA.

• 1. ALGERIA
• Virtually the whole nation of Algeria : Tuareg, Muzab, Berbers people of mountain, Shawiya, Shilha, Imazighen,
• 2. ANGOLA
• Mashi/Mbwela, Mbukushu, Ngankala, Herero, Kwangali, Nyaneka, San, School children and students generally.
• 3. BENIN
• Fon, Gbe, Nagot, Idacca, Ife , Muslim community: Mokole, Anii, Dyerma, Hausa, Mosii, Fulbe (Fula),
• 4. BOTSWANA
• Bakgalagadi (Mixed Tswana and San), Kalanga, Yeyi, Mbukushu, Subia, San, Herero,
• 5. BURKINA FASO
• Soninke, Jula, Tuareg, Bolon, Kurumba, Songhai , Doghosie, Komono, Fulbe, Dogon, Bulsa, Gurenne, Senufo, Lobiri, Guma, Bobo, Gurunsi
• 6. BURUNDI
• Twa
• 7. CAMEROUN
• Fulbe, Kanuri , Kotoko, Hausa , Fali , Mbum, Shuwa Arabs, Mandara, Giziga, Mofu, Kapsiki, Gude, Gidar, Pygmies
• 8. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• Runga, Kara, Luto, Mbororo Fulbe, Arabs, Sudanese, Chadians, Arab, Hausa, nomadic Shuwa Arabs, Mbororo Fulbe, Pygmy,Bofi, Bokoto , Gbaya, Langbassi , Banda, Sara .
• 9. CHAD
• The Saharan peoples (living in the northern deserts, Tibesti Mountains and northern shores of Lake Chad), the Naba (living between N'Djamena and the Guera mountains), The Guera Mountains dwellers (home of 19 small peoples of which only 6 have churches — the remainder are rapidly turning to Islam), The Ouaddai peoples (Muslim and live in the eastern provinces of Biltine, Ouaddai and Salamat bordering Sudan, Maba, Massalit, Runga, Assangori, Tama, Shuwa Arabs, t he Chari-Bagirmi . The Barma, Chari River side dwellers, Arabs, the nomadic Mbororo Fulbe , N'Djamena .
• 10. FEDERAL ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF THE COMORES
• Mixed Arab, Makua, Malagasy, Réunionese, Arab, Njazidja and Nzwani (Anjouan).
• 11. CONGO
• Teke (at the centre and north), Pygmy tribes (semi-nomadic jungle groups), Punu, Nzebi, Pol, Tsaangi, Pande.
• 12. CONGO DRC
• Street children (especially in Kinshasa), The Kimbanguist Church (where Kimbangu, the founder, is revered as the Holy Spirit or seen as a visible image of Christ), the intellectuals and wealthy elite in Kinshasa, swamplands north-east of Kinshasa , t he Swahili-speaking Muslim communities , Hunde, Bira, Lega, Kuba, Nyanga, t he Pygmy peoples .
• 13. COTE D'IVOIRE
• The Muslim Soninke, Bambara, Wassulunke, Fulbe from several countries, traditional Bisa (all peoples with their majorities in Burkina Faso, Mali or Ghana), Wolof from Senegal, Tuaregs from Mali, Hausa from Niger and Nigeria, and Lebanese and North African Muslims. Malinke, Fulbe and Jula-speaking peoples (the Malinke/Fulbe are 99.9% non-Christian)
• 14. DJIBOUTI
• The Afars, Somalis, Arabs (both local and Yemeni) , the ethnic minorities (Greek, French and Indians).
• 15. EGYPT
• Peasants in squalid slums, The fellahin (peasants) in the rural villages of the Nile Valley ), t he Nubians of Upper Egypt (for centuries a Christian kingdom, but eventually under pressure became Muslim in the 17th Century), t he desert dwellers (Bedouin, Siwa Berber and others), Arab visitors to Egypt (from many ‘closed' Muslim lands).
• 16. EQUATORIAL GUINEA
• Ngumba, Yaka, Batanga, Benga, t he mainland dwellers, Annobon Island dwellers.
• 17. ERITREA
• Tigre (entirely Muslim , Eritrean or Ethiopian Semitic people), Jabarti (Muslim minority among the Tigrinya), the Afar and related Saho (m any are nomadic), Beja and Nara (m any are nomadic), Arab Rashiada (migrated from Saudi Arabia in the 19 th Century).
• 18. ETHIOPIA
• Amhara and Tigray, Somali (Dire Dawa), Harari and Afar, Oromia, Aari and Borana Oromo, Guji Oromo, Bench, Bodi, Bumi, Hamer-Banna, Daasenach, Dime, Ebore, Karo, Me'en, Mali, Mursi, Tarra, Tsamai and Wata, Sudanese refugees.
• 19. GABON
• Kota , Mbede, Mahongwe, Mbangwe, Tsangi, Teke, Fang, Babing and Pygmies.
• 20. GAMBIA
• The majority Muslims (88.8%), especially the Mandinka.
• 21. GHANA
• Sisaala, Kasena, Mamprusi, Nankana and Bulsa, Frafra, Bimoba, Kusasi and Tampulma, traditional peoples of the Northern region (e.g. Birifor and Konkomba Nawuri, Nchumburu and others), Gonja, Dagomba, Kotokoli, Wali, Fulbe, Ewe, t rokosi (women enslaved by fetish priests), Abandoned, homeless street children.
• 22. GUINEA
• Guinea is one of the least evangelized countries in Black Africa. Malinke. Fulbe or Futa Jalon , Susu. The Muslim Wassulunke, Manya, Mandéni, Tukulor, Jakanke, Fulacunda, and several Baga subgroups.
• 23. GUINEA BISSAU
• Fulbe, Mandingo, Beafada, Susu, Nalu, Sarakole, Jakanka, Pajadinka and Badyara Felupe, Bayote, Mankanya and Mansoanka.
• 24. KENYA
• Turkana (13% Christian), Sabaot (2%), Pokot (9%), Rendille (3%), Samburu (9%), Daasenach (0.1%), Muslim Oromo-related peoples of the northeast — the Borana and related Gabbra and Njemps (Chamus), also the Garreh-Ajuran Oromo, Orma, Malakote and Munyoyaya. descendants of the Khoisan (Bushmen) - (Boni, Dahalo, Sanye and Dorobo, the nine Mijikenda peoples of the coastal hills (Giriama, Duruma, Chonyi, Pokomo, Digo, Segeju, Upper Pokomo and Bajun), the coastal Swahili and Arab population, the Somali in the northeast and cities, the Asian community is Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Parsee and Sikh.
• 25. LESOTHO
• The Sephiri (secret society to which many churchgoers from most denominations belong), the more syncretistic, indigenous churches. The mountain population of 600,000 (most nominally Christian)
• 26. Liberia
• Muslim groups: the Vai, Mende and Manya; Traditional peoples with growing Muslim influence: Dewoin (8,000), Gola and Gbandi; Peoples with strong fetish powers: Krahn, Grebo and Kpelle.
• 27. Libya
• The entire indigenous population (75% other 25% are expatriates) is unreached:
• Arab 63.1%: Including 750,000 Bedouin in 5 groups.
• Berber 9.4%: About half are Arabized. 8 groups, largest: Nefusi 173,000; Jalo 36,700; Zuara; 33,600; Jofra 23,000; Ghadames 10,000.
• Other 2.5%: Black African 100,000; Teda 20,000; Zaghawa 8,600. Mainly in southern oases.
• 28. Madagascar
• Over 5,000 villages and 5 million people live in the less-evangelized north and south. Malagasy traditionalists are in the great majority among, for example, the Sakalava in the west, and the Betsimisaraka, Mahafaly, Bara, Antambahoaka and Tankarana. The Mahafaly on the SW (Shaman healers and witchcraft abound and demonization is a major problem). Muslims are growing in numbers among the Sakalava, Antemoro, Antankarana. Ethnic minorities: the Muslim Comorians and Gujarati traders.
• 29. Malawi
• The Yao ; t he Ngonde and Lambya; the Sena and Lomwe; the Gujarati and Tamil.
• 30. Mali
• Of the 34 ethnic groups, only four are more than 1% evangelical. All peoples are in desperate need of the good news. There are 11 groups with no known evangelical believers. Among them are the Jula, Maure, and Tukulor. Also, the smaller (therefore often neglected) groups with 25,000 people or less and with no known believers (Duun, Mossi, Wolof, Banka, Jotoni, Pana, Samoa ). Others are Jalunke, Kagoro, Fulanke, Wassulunke, Songhai , Tuareg, the Idaksahak Tamacheq, the Dogon.
• 31. Mauritania
• Haratine, (Moors by culture and language), African peoples of the Senegal River Valley (Tukulor, Fulbe, Soninke, Bambara and Wolof), nomads of the desert (descended from Berber and Arab Bedouin tribes).
• 32. Mauritius
• Muslims community, Rodrigues Islanders, Speakers of major Indian languages (Bhojpuri, Hindi and Urdu), Chinese community, Chagos Islanders.
• 33. Mayotte
• The Muslim majority (ShiMaore 85,000; shiBushi 42,600; Other Comorian 13,000).
• 34. Morocco
• The Berber peoples [Tashilhayt (Ishilhayn, S. Shilha, Souss) 2.4m; Tamazight (C. Shilha) 2m; Tarifit (Rif) 1.3m.], the Maghreb Jews, the nomadic desert tribes Missionary work, as such, is no longer openly permitted, Arabic-speaking 65%. Moroccan Arab 16 mill.; Jebala 1.8m; Algerian 200,000; Hassaniya 45,000).
• 35. Mozambique
• The Makhuwa (30-60% are Muslim), The coastal Swahili-related peoples, The Makonde in the north-east (partly Muslim and partly animist), The Yao of Niassa Province (96% Muslim), The peoples of the Zambezi valley (especially the Sena, Kunda, Podzo, Nyungwe, Chwabo, Lolo, Kokola, Manyawa, Marenje and Takwane), Makua. The cities (War, famine and poverty have filled Beira and Maputo with refugees.). The Northern Provinces of Cabo Delgado and Niassa are the least evangelized.
• 36. Namibia
• 37. Niger
• 38. Nigeria

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