Grupos étnicos: os Toposa
Os Toposa são um grande grupo agropastoris com uma população estimada em 500.000 habitantes. Eles vivem em três comunidades no Estado Equatorial Oriental (EES) do Sudão do Sul – Kapoeta Norte, Leste e Sul – assim como na v...
Read MorePeople Group: Chinese immigrants to Africa
Across Africa, Chinese nationals are arriving to do business. Many are middle class people who have come to invest and make money, though some have been hired by other Chinese to work as labourers, factory workers, or even prostitutes. Mos...
Read MoreGrupos de pessoas: Bosquímanos de Angola
Os bosquímanos são os mais antigos habitantes da África Austral, com cerca de 100.000 pessoas espalhadas pela Namíbia, África do Sul, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zâmbia, Lesoto e Angola. Em Angola, concentram-se principalmente em áreas remo...
Read MoreGrupos de pessoas: Baka
O povo Baka, localizado no sudeste dos Camarões, são os maiores de vários grupos pigmeus espalhados pela África Central. O povo pigmeu tende a ser pequeno em estatura, com homens adultos não mais altos do que 1,55cm.
Os Baka ad...
Read MorePeople Group: African youth in missions
Spoken word is a type of poetry that often focuses on social justice issues. It is also being utilized by young people to proclaim God’s missional message. Across Africa, young people are rising up to take the challenge, but we are also ...
Read MorePeople Group – the Kango
The Kango people, numbering less than 50,000, dwell on the banks and islands of the Uele River in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They are primarily fishermen. According to lore, their ancestor, Kango was a talented fisher...
Read MorePeople Group: Fulani
The Fulani, who call themselves the Fulƃe, are also known as the Fula, Fulani or Fulƃe. They are a diverse people group spread across about 20 countries of West and Central Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia. Up to 47 clans and sub-clans are consi...
Read MorePeople Groups: the Beja of Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt
The Beja people are nomads who have occupied their homelands across the Sudan, Eritrea and Egypt for more than 4,000 years. Some scholars believe they are related to the ancient Egyptians. In the course of their history, they accepted Isla...
Read MorePeople groups: the North Sentinelese
The Sentinelese people live on North Sentinel Island, which is part of India and lies south in the Indian Ocean in the Andaman archipelago. The nearest island is less than 30 km away, but they are over 1200 km from the Indian subcontinent....
Read MorePeople group: the Deaf of North Africa
Across the world, there are up to 72 million Deaf people, making them one of the largest unreached people groups on the planet. According to DOOR International, a mission specializing in reaching the Deaf, fewer than two per cent know Jesu...
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