The South Central Banda of Central African Republic, numbering approximately 288,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a regional branch of the Banda, Central Africa's largest ethnic group, organized into patrilineal hamlets under local headmen and growing maize, cassava, groundnuts, and yams despite historic devastation from nineteenth-century slave raiding They are an Indigenous people, with Banda (Ubangi South Central) as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Adamawa-Ubangi people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Neo-Pentecostalism and South Central Banda is their primary language.