People group profile · PG014962
The Hadza of Tanzania
The Hadza of Tanzania, numbering about 1,600 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are one of the last nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples on earth, living around Lake Eyasi in Tanzania in small leaderless bands of twenty to forty that continue a hunting and honey-gathering way of life documented in the area for over 50,000 years.
They are an indigenous people in the Khoisan people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Hadza.
Fast facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Population
- 1,600
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Khoisan
- Primary language
- Hadza (hts)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- 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
- Eastern Africa, Africa
- Location
- Manyara region: Iramba and Mbulu districts; Simiyu region: Maswa district; Singida region: southeast of Lake Eyasi, south and northwest
Where they live
Gospel status
The Hadza 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 Hadza
- 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
95% adherents
Primary language
80% speak Hadza
Gospel resources in Hadza
- Bible available, published -
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Hadza)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Hadza
- 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.
- 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.
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