People group profile · PG033358
The Aku of Sierra Leone
The Aku of Sierra Leone, numbering about 9,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Sierra Leone; a dialect subgroup of Krio (kri).
They are a diaspora people in the Other Sub-Saharan African people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Krio.
Fast facts
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Population
- 9,500
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Other Sub-Saharan African
- Primary language
- Krio (kri)
- 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
- Western Africa, Africa
- Location
- Western Area: Freetown peninsula communities; south of Freetown, York and Banana islands
Where they live
Gospel status
The Aku 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 Aku
- 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
26% adherents
Primary language
Krio · Indo-European family
100% speak Krio
Gospel resources in Krio
- Bible available, published 2013
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
Bibles
- 1992 Good News for All Men · video, audio, text
- 2013 Bible Society in Sierra Leone · audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Aku
- 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.
Aku in other countries
The same people is also reported in 1 other country.
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