People group profile · PG012437
The Pwo of Burkina Faso
The Pwo of Burkina Faso, numbering about 30,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a small Indigenous ethnolinguistic group in south‑western Burkina Faso, with close cultural and linguistic ties to neighboring peoples in north‑western Ghana.
They are an indigenous people in the Gur people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Phuie.
Fast facts
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Population
- 30,000
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Gur
- Primary language
- Phuie (pug)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Also known as
- Phuó, Puguli, Pougouli
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
- Location
- South-West Region, Hauts-Bassins Region
Where they live
Gospel status
The Pwo are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Pwo
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
72% adherents
Primary language
Phuie · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Phuie
Gospel resources in Phuie
- Bible available, published 2019
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Pougouli)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Pwo
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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