People group profile · PG013597
The Daza of Niger
The Daza of Niger, numbering about 106,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Toubou subgroup of the central Sahara and Sahel, more numerous than their Teda kin to the north, whose ancestors lived by herding and raiding caravans rather than farming, resisting French control into the 1930s and prominent later in Chad's FROLINAT.
They are an indigenous people in the Kanuri-Saharan people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Islam, and they primarily speak Dazaga.
Fast facts
- Country
- Niger
- Population
- 106,000
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Kanuri-Saharan
- Primary language
- Dazaga (dzg)
- Primary religion
- Folk Islam
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- 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 Daza 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 Daza
- 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
100% adherents
Primary language
Dazaga · Saharan family
100% speak Dazaga
Gospel resources in Dazaga
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Daza)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Daza
- 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.
Daza in other countries
The same people is also reported in 1 other country.
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