People Groups: Antanala of Madagascar
The Antanala people live in and near the forests of southeastern Madagascar. They are divided into two subgroups: the Tanala Menabe in the mountainous north and the Tanala Ikongo in the more accessible south.
Tanala Menabe vill...
Read MorePeople Groups: People of Ayutthaya, Thailand
The city of Ayutthaya is the former capital of Thailand and an important place for Thai Buddhists, especially on holy days and national holidays. It is known as a place of spiritual power. Just 40 miles north of the huge city of Bangkok, i...
Read MorePeople Groups: Maba
The Maba people inhabit the Ouaddaï region of eastern Chad. At present, there is little to no Christian witness in Ouaddaï, where 95 per cent of Maba and other Chadian peoples are Sunni Muslims. This area was once the sultanate of...
Read MorePeople groups: hidden women
People Groups: Hidden Women
Across Africa, there are hundreds of thousands of women who, besides immediate family, only interact with other women. Purdah, taken from the Persian word for “curtain,...
Read MorePeople Groups: Zigua
The Zigua are a Bantu people living in northeastern coastal Tanzania. Their language is Chizigula, and most also speak Swahili fluently.
They settled near Dar-es-Salaam, having fled the slave trade in the east. The Zigua people trac...
Read MorePeople Groups: Imazighen
People Groups: Imazighen
The Imazighen are the original people of North Africa. Their culture and civilisation have thrived for more than 4,000 years.
In their language, Imazighen means ‘men who are fre...
Read MorePeople groups: Gujarati
The Gujarati are arguably the most widely spread people group, scattered across 129 nations, and making up 33 percent of the Indian diaspora worldwide. Their original home is the state of Gujarat in Western India, and their language is...
Read MorePeople Groups: The Somali
People Groups: Somalis
Although 99 per cent of Somalis are Muslim, and 90 per cent speak the same language, they are divided into numerous clan and sub-clan groups that have been in conflict for centuries.
The fi...
Read MorePeople groups: university students
Currently 1,497 registered universities and tertiary institutions in Africa serve approximately five million students. In general, about 60 per cent of the African population identify as Christians and about 30 per cent as Muslims. The N...
Read MorePeople groups: the Yao
The majority of the two million Yao people, who live in Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania, practice a form of Islam that is intermingled with their traditional animistic ...
