People 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...
Read MorePeople Group: Bushmen of Angola
The Bushmen are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, with about 100,000 people scattered across Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho and Angola. In Angola, they are mainly concentrated in remote, inaccessible areas and ...
Read MorePeople Groups: Baka
The Baka people of southeastern Cameroon are the largest of several pygmy groups scattered throughout Central Africa. Pygmy people tend to be small in stature, with adult men not taller than 155 centimetres.
The Baka worship the forest s...
Read MorePeople Groups: Uzbeks
Uzbeks are famous for their hospitality, believing that guests are a blessing and a privilege. Even in the humblest of circumstances, a stranger is warmly received and hosted.
This landlocked country, bordering Afghanistan, has reso...
Read MorePeople Groups: Hausa
The Hausa are the largest people group in West Africa. For hundreds of years, commerce, fuelled by a network of trade routes across the Sahel, Sahara and Sudan, has spread Hausa culture and language far and wide.
Islam arrived in Ha...
Read MorePeople Groups: MKs
Missionary Kids, referred to as MKs, have been part of the history of missions since the age of Modern Missions began in the late 1700s. But until recent decades, their unique characteristics and roles in missions have been little understo...
Read MorePeople Groups: Romani
The Romani people can be found in any country in Europe. Widely known as Gypsies, this name came from the false belief that they had migrated from Egypt. The te...
Read MorePeople Groups: the Afar of Djibouti
The Afar people have been in the Horn of Africa for centuries, their lineages reaching back to the Arabian Peninsula. Language scholars tell us that they were some of the first people living in the Horn of Africa. Djibouti is home to about 300,000...
Read MorePeople Groups: North African Arabs
Africa has been home to Arab people since the A.D. 600s. Many live in the Maghreb region of western North Africa, which includes the countries of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. These countries also have significant populations ...
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