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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Senara Senufo of Burkina Faso

The Senara Senufo of Burkina Faso, numbering approximately 69,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Gur-speaking Senufo subgroup of western Burkina Faso, part of a wider Senufo dispersal tied to the medieval trade town of Kong, organized around occupational castes and the Poro and Sandogo initiatory societies renowned for wood sculpture. They mostly adhere to Animism and Senara Sénoufo is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2025). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Senara Senufo

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Burkina Faso
People Cluster: Gur
Primary Language(s): Senara Sénoufo (seq)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 69,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012430
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

65%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Senara Sénoufo
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Sénoufo, Senara Speakers

Media Resources in Senara Sénoufo:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Senara Sénoufo:

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Explore Lostness and Next Steps

Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), 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

Next steps for the Senara Senufo:
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Pray specifically for the Senara Senufo of Burkina Faso

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
readActs 17:27

Pray that those who don't yet know Christ will search diligently for God and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb’
readRevelation 7:9-10

Pray that many people will receive the gospel and will be part of the great multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, clothed in white robes and palm branches, proclaiming salvation belongs to our God.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
readJohn 10:27

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will hear God's voice and will have the great assurance that no one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
readPsalm 139:14

Praise God for His creativity and power, and pray that He will raise up men and women from among them who are in awe of all He has done and want to go share the hope of Christ with others.

Senufo, Senara Across Countries (ROP3 - 107309) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▼
Senara SenufoPG012430Senara SenufoBurkina Faso69,000Unengaged and UnreachedSenara SénoufoAnimism

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