The Dan Yakuba of Cote d’Ivoire

The Dan Yakuba of Cote d’Ivoire, numbering approximately 1,965,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Manding-speaking group of people who today are concentrated in Ivory Coast, especially in the departments of Man, Danane, and Biankouma. They mostly adhere to Animism and Dan is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cote d’Ivoire
People Cluster: Mande
Primary Language(s): Dan (dnj)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 1,965,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG013066
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

50%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Dan
Language Family: Mande

100%
%
Dan Speakers

Media Resources in Dan:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
JESUSView Film

2 films

Bible Resources in Dan:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1991 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc.✓✓✓
1994 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc.✓✓✓

2 entries

Or check out the Dan bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Dan Yakuba 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 Dan Yakuba:
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 Dan Yakuba of Cote d’Ivoire

But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.
readPsalm 130:4

Pray that God will bring those who have hard hearts to repentance and trust in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins.

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
readActs 17:24-25

Pray that the good news will reach everyone in this people group and that many will come to know and serve the one true God who made the world and everything in it and lives today.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.
readPsalm 23:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember that the Lord is their shepherd, providing for their every need.

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 the promise in Revelation 7:9-10 will encourage believers from among them or from nearby people groups to share the gospel with people who have never learned it.

Dan Across Countries (ROP3 - 102417) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
All

3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
Dan YakubaDan YakubaCote d’Ivoire1,965,000No Longer UnreachedDanAnimism
Dan YakubaDan YakubaGuinea1,500Engaged yet UnreachedDanAnimism
Dan YakubaDan YakubaLiberia248,000No Longer UnreachedDanAnimism

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