People group profile · PG013470
The Nalu of Guinea-Bissau
The Nalu of Guinea-Bissau, numbering about 11,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a pre-Mande coastal people of the Rio Nunez and Tristao Islands straddling Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, settled before the Mandinka arrived in the 1400s and closely related to the neighboring Baga and Landuma peoples.
They are an indigenous people in the Atlantic people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Islam, and they primarily speak Nalu.
Fast facts
- Country
- Guinea-Bissau
- Population
- 11,500
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Atlantic
- Primary language
- Nalu (naj)
- Primary religion
- Folk Islam
- 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
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
Where they live
Gospel status
The Nalu 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 Nalu
- 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
Folk Islam · Islam
85% adherents
Primary language
Nalu · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Nalu
Gospel resources in Nalu
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Nalu
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
Nalu in other countries
The same people is also reported in 1 other country.
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