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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Bu of Cameroon

The Bu of Cameroon, numbering approximately 2,200 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are n indigenous community of Cameroon's Lower Fungom region associated with the closely related Mundabli and Mufu village varieties. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Mundabli-Mufu is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Benue
Primary Language(s): Mundabli-Mufu (boe)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 2,200
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG012556
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

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%
Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mundabli-Mufu
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

57%
%
Mundabli Speakers

Media Resources in Mundabli-Mufu:

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Bible Resources in Mundabli-Mufu:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Bu are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Bu:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Bu of Cameroon

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
readExodus 2:23-24

As the lost among them labor, groan, and cry out under false religions and sin, pray God will have mercy on them and hear their cries, that He will be their Rescuer from the kingdom of darkness and bring them into the kingdom of light.

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
readIsaiah 30:21

As the lost in this people group seek to know the truth of who God is, pray that the Spirit of God will draw them to Himself and guide them in the way they should go.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
readLuke 10:2

Ask God to send out laborers into His harvest field, raising up believers from around the world to go and proclaim the kingdom of God with those who need to hear it.

Bu Across Countries (ROP3 - 101682) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▼
BuPG012556BuCameroon2,200No Longer UnreachedMundabli-MufuFolk Islam

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