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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Lunda of Angola

The Lunda of Angola, numbering approximately 402,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bantu people whose Lunda Empire, founded in the 1500s after a Luba prince married Lueji A'Nkonde, traded ivory and slaves with Arabs and Portuguese until Chokwe incursions eroded it, its heartland partitioned among Angola, Congo, and Zambia in 1884. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Lunda is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Lunda

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Angola
People Cluster: Bantu, Central-South
Primary Language(s): Lunda (lun)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 402,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG015182
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Lunda
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
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Lunda Speakers

Media Resources in Lunda:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Lunda:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2003 Bible Society of Zambia✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Lunda bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Lunda 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 Lunda:
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 Lunda of Angola

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
readTitus 3:3

Pray for those who seek worldly pleasures instead of God to flee from sin and choose God’s goodness and lovingkindness by placing their faith in Jesus.

Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.
readPsalm 66:5

Pray that many here will come and see what the Creator God has done on their behalf.

We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.
readPsalm 75:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will give thanks to the Lord for His wondrous works and declare His goodness to all people.

And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written, "Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand."
readRomans 15:20-21

Pray that God will send believers to cross cultures and proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, so that the nations might glorify God for His mercy.

Lunda Across Countries (ROP3 - 105926) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
LundaPG014635LundaCongo, Democratic Republic of the266,000No Longer UnreachedLundaRoman Catholicism
LundaPG015182LundaAngola402,000Engaged yet UnreachedLundaEthnoreligion
Northwest LundaPG015599Northwest LundaZambia367,000Engaged yet UnreachedLundaEthnoreligion

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