People 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 beliefs. “Folk Islam” makes them slaves of fear, because they have experien...
Read MorePeople groups: the Tuareg
In early 2016, after 30 years of hard work by the translation team, Tuareg Christians celebrated the completion of the New Testament in their own language. “Now we must read the Word!” said one participant. “Every believer, no matter what th...
Read MorePeople groups: the Toposa
The Toposa are a large agroÂpastoralist people group with an estimated population of 500,000. They live in three counties in the East Equatorial State (EES) of South Sudan – Kapoeta North, East, and South – and also in neighbouring Ethiopia.<...
Read MorePeople Groups: “invisible” women with obstetric fistula
At 15 years of age, AĂŻsha is a mother. This is not so unusual in the context of her country, her people, or her village. What is uncommon is that, rather than experiencing joyful days of watching her newborn son grow and develop, and sh...
Read MorePeople Groups: Ebola survivors
In March 2014 the news of an outbreak of Ebola virus in northern Guinea surprised the world, because Ebola had never been identified in the region before. The number of people who contracted the disease quickly mounted, as it spread ...
Read MorePeople Groups: The Displaced
Today the African continent, along with many other parts of the world, is witnessing global migration on a staggering scale. Driven by economic distress, political and social upheaval, war or natural disaster people are taking to the...
Read MorePeople Groups: The Ingessana
One of the groups taking refuge in Mabaan, South Sudan, is the Ingessana, a people who have never been conquered and are infamous for their hostility towards strangers. Because of their isolation, they have been influenced very littl...
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