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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Kyibaku of Nigeria

The Kyibaku of Nigeria, numbering approximately 237,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an Indigenous Chadic people of the Chibok highlands of northeastern Nigeria who emerged from the convergence of several regional communities and maintain a distinct Kyibaku identity through their Cibak language and hill-country heritage They are an Indigenous people, with Kyibaku as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Chadic people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Neo-Pentecostalism and Cibak is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Cibak (ckl)
Primary Religion(s): Neo-Pentecostalism
Population: 237,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG013953
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Neo-Pentecostalism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

78%
%
Neo-Pentecostalism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Cibak
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Kibaku Speakers

Media Resources in Cibak:

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Bible Resources in Cibak:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Kyibaku 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 Kyibaku:
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 Kyibaku of Nigeria

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
readEphesians 2:4-5

Pray that those who have not yet received new life will be made alive together with Christ, saved by grace and raised up with Him to newness of life.

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
readIsaiah 43:19

Pray that the lost will see the new thing God can do in their lives and trust in His plan and purpose for them.

Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
readPsalm 6:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and still struggle with the worries of this life, God will deliver them from worry for the sake of His steadfast love.

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
readRomans 10:15

Pray that God will call many believers who will obediently go and share the gospel with those who desperately need it.

Kyibaku Across Countries (ROP3 - 105549) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
KyibakuPG013953KyibakuNigeria237,000No Longer UnreachedCibakNeo-Pentecostalism

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