Hausa of Nigeria (PGID: PG013828)

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The Hausa of Nigeria

The Hausa of Nigeria, numbering approximately 40,550,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as an ethnolinguistic community indigenous to northern Nigeria and southern Niger They are an Indigenous people, with Hausa as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Hausa people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Hausa is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Hausa
Primary Language(s): Hausa (hau)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 40,550,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013828
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Pray for the Hausa of Nigeria

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%

Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Hausa
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%

Hausa Speakers

Media Resources in Hausa:

Films:

Title	Link
JESUS	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
The Savior	View Film

3 films

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Bible Resources in Hausa:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio
1979 Bible Society of Nigeria		✓
Common Language Version (FCBH Audio)	✓	✓
Littafi Mai Tsarki	✓

3 entries

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Or check out the Hausa bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Hausa are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Hausa:

Continue prayer and fasting for this group

Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group

Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Hausa of Nigeria

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20

As God's creation declares His glory, pray that multitudes who don't know Him will see the works of His hands and desire to know more about the Creator.

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
Acts 17:26-27

Pray that the lost will seek God and find Him, for He is not far from each one of us. Pray that they will have opportunities to access the gospel, learn God's purpose for their lives, and believe in Him.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
Acts 17:29

Pray that God will send out laborers to tell people of the one true God and, as the good news is shared, bring about repentance and belief as they turn from idols and follow Jesus.

Hausa Across Countries (ROP3 - 103733) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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19 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country	Population ▲	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG047465	Hausa	Canada	375	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG013409	Hausa	Guinea	1,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG050354	Hausa	United States	5,400	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG012404	Hausa	Burkina Faso	12,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG011263	Hausa	Algeria	12,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG012971	Hausa	Congo	12,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG014358	Hausa	Togo	26,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013165	Hausa	Equatorial Guinea	32,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG012869	Hausa	Central African Republic	41,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG012327	Hausa	Benin	44,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013188	Hausa	Gabon	45,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG042724	Hausa	Ethiopia	133,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG011360	Hausa	Chad	295,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013336	Hausa	Ghana	322,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG012616	Hausa	Cameroon	433,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013089	Hausa	Cote d’Ivoire	483,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG012037	Hausa	Sudan	1,060,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Sunni Islam
PG013600	Hausa	Niger	16,140,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam
PG013828	Hausa	Nigeria	40,550,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Hausa	Folk Islam

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