People group profile · PG013075
The Fante of Côte d’Ivoire
The Fante of Côte d’Ivoire, numbering about 30,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Cote d’Ivoire; a dialect subgroup of Fanti (fat).
They are a diaspora people in the Guinean people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Akan.
Fast facts
- Country
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Population
- 30,000
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Guinean
- Primary language
- Akan (aka)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Minimally Reached People Group
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
Where they live
Gospel status
The Fante are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Fante
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Primary language
Akan · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Akan
Gospel resources in Akan
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Fante)
- JESUS (Asante Twi)
- JESUS (Twi)
- JESUS (Fante)
- JESUS (Asante Twi)
- JESUS (Twi)
- Magdalena (Twi)
- Magdalena (Asante Twi)
Bibles
- 1964 Bible Society of Ghana · audio
- 1964 Bible Society of Ghana · video, audio
- 1982 Bible Society of Ghana · audio
- 2012 Bible Society of Ghana · video, audio, text
- Asante-Twi Bible With Deutero-Canons · video
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Fante
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- 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.
Fante in other countries
The same people (ROP3 102998) is reported in 2 other countries.
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