People group profile · PG014996
The Mwanga of Tanzania
The Mwanga of Tanzania, numbering about 252,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bantu people of Tanzania's Momba District and northeastern Zambia whose oral tradition traces origin to northeast Africa around 900 BC, still ruled by a king based in Tanzania who appoints a chief for the Zambian Namwanga.
They are an indigenous people in the Bantu, Central-Tanzania people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Roman Catholicism, and they primarily speak Nyamwanga.
Fast facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Population
- 252,000
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Bantu, Central-Tanzania
- Primary language
- Nyamwanga (mwn)
- Primary religion
- Roman Catholicism
- 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
- Eastern Africa, Africa
Where they live
Gospel status
The Mwanga 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 Mwanga
- 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
Roman Catholicism · Christianity
73% adherents
Primary language
Nyamwanga · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Nyamwanga
Gospel resources in Nyamwanga
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Namwanga)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Mwanga
- 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.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
Mwanga in other countries
The same people (ROP3 106979) is reported in 1 other country.
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