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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Psikye of Nigeria

The Psikye of Nigeria, numbering approximately 27,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Chadic-speaking Mandara Mountains people known as Kapsiki in Cameroon and Kamwe or Higi in Nigeria, organized into villages of several thousand and sustaining themselves through livestock farming and agriculture. They mostly adhere to Animism and Psikye is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Psikye (kvj)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 27,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG014085
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Pray for the Psikye of Nigeria

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

57%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Psikye
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Psikye Speakers

Media Resources in Psikye:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Psikye:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1988 Bible Society of Cameroon✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Psikye bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Psikye are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Psikye:
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

Pray specifically for the Psikye of Nigeria

"For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" But he said "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
readLuke 18:25-27

Pray that the lost who think they have everything they need will recognize their spiritual poverty apart from Jesus and turn to Him in faith.

And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
readLuke 7:50

Pray for the good news of Jesus Christ to reach many so that they can place their faith in Him and have lasting hope.

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
readIsaiah 9:6

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in the coming of the Prince of Peace because He will bring everlasting peace and rule with justice and righteousness.

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”
readLuke 18:29-30

Pray that God will raise up people to go and share the gospel and help them trust His promise that anyone who has left those they treasure for the sake of the kingdom of God will receive many times more in this life and in the life to come.

Kapsiki Across Countries (ROP3 - 104619) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▼PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
PsikyePG014085PsikyeNigeria27,500Engaged yet UnreachedPsikyeAnimism
KapsikiPG012633KapsikiCameroon137,000No Longer UnreachedPsikyeSunni Islam

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