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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ganda of Tanzania

The Ganda of Tanzania, numbering approximately 72,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Lake Victoria region of Uganda. They mostly adhere to African Traditional Religion and Ganda is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Tanzania
People Cluster: Bantu, Makua-Yao
Primary Language(s): Ganda (lug)
Primary Religion(s): African Traditional Religion
Population: 72,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG014927
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: African Traditional Religion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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African Traditional Relig… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Ganda
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

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Ganda Speakers

Media Resources in Ganda:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Ganda:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2003 Bible Society of Uganda✓✓
Luganda Contemporary Bible (Bayibuli Entukuvu)✓

2 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Ganda bible at Bible.com

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Explore Lostness and Next Steps

Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Ganda:
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Pray specifically for the Ganda of Tanzania

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
readPsalm 51:17

Pray that those who want to achieve salvation through their works will be unsettled in their pursuit and that, with a broken spirit and contrite heart, they will trust in Christ.

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
readLuke 13:3

Pray that the lost will repent and believe the gospel, for without it, they will perish.

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.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
readRomans 6:23

Pray that God will bring people to faith who are excited about the eternal life they have in Christ and will want to cross cultures to share this hope with others.

Baganda Across Countries (ROP3 - 112045) reported in the following countries:

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5 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
BagandaPG047477BagandaCanada6,200No Longer UnreachedGandaRoman Catholicism
BagandaPG047173BagandaUnited States8,700Unengaged and UnreachedGandaRoman Catholicism
GandaPG015080GandaUganda10,400,000Engaged yet UnreachedGandaProtestantism
GandaPG014927GandaTanzania72,500Unengaged and UnreachedGandaAfrican Traditional Religion
GandaPG014787GandaKenya47,500Unengaged and UnreachedGandaAfrican Traditional Religion

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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