The Brong of Cote d’Ivoire, numbering approximately 273,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Akan people whose name derives from Abono woo, meaning pioneer of the land after their ancestors emerged from the sacred cave of Amowi, forming the first Akan state by the 12th century and later founding the Gyaaman kingdom in the late 1400s. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Abron is their primary language.