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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Brong of Ghana

The Brong of Ghana, numbering approximately 1,780,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Akan people of central Ghana and northeastern Cote d'Ivoire's Gyaaman kingdom, credited by tradition with founding the first Akan state at Bono Manso and originating pan-Akan customs like adinkra symbols. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Abron is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Ghana
People Cluster: Guinean
Primary Language(s): Abron (abr)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 1,780,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG013281
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Abron
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Abron Speakers

Media Resources in Abron:

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Bible Resources in Abron:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Brong 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 Brong:
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 Brong of Ghana

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or?rulers?or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
readColossians 1:16

Pray for those who are lost among them, that they will come to know the One who created all things and holds all things together.

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
readRomans 2:4

Pray that, in God's kindness and according to His nature, He will lead many to repentance.

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
readIsaiah 25:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice in the hope of the Lord's coming, when He will swallow up death forever and wipe away their tears.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Brong Across Countries (ROP3 - 101675) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▼
BrongPG013062BrongCote d’Ivoire273,000Engaged yet UnreachedAbronProtestantism
BrongPG013281BrongGhana1,780,000No Longer UnreachedAbronProtestantism

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