People group profile · PG033497
The Kisankasa of Tanzania
The Kisankasa of Tanzania, numbering about 13,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a small Southern Nilotic-speaking ethnolinguistic group of the Rift Valley of northern Tanzania. Kisankasa identity today is shaped by social marginalization, economic pressure, and increasing assimilation into surrounding populations.
They are an indigenous people in the Khoisan people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Kisankasa.
Fast facts
- Country
- Tanzania
- Population
- 13,500
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Khoisan
- Primary language
- Kisankasa (kqh)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- 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
- Location
- Ngorongoro–Mara region
Where they live
Gospel status
The Kisankasa 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 Kisankasa
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
98% adherents
Primary language
Kisankasa · Bookkeeping family
58% speak Kisankasa
Gospel resources in Kisankasa
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not 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 Kisankasa
- 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.
- 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.
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