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The Lunda of Angola

The Lunda of Angola, numbering approximately 402,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bantu people whose Lunda Empire, founded in the 1500s after a Luba prince married Lueji A'Nkonde, traded ivory and slaves with Arabs and Portuguese until Chokwe incursions eroded it, its heartland partitioned among Angola, Congo, and Zambia in 1884. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Lunda is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Angola
People Cluster: Bantu, Central-South
Primary Language(s): Lunda (lun)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 402,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG015182
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Lunda
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
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Lunda Speakers

Media Resources in Lunda:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Lunda:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2003 Bible Society of Zambia✓✓

1 entry

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Or check out the Lunda bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Lunda 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 Lunda:
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 Lunda of Angola

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!
readPsalm 46:10

Pray that those who do not yet worship Jesus will be still and know that He is God, that He will be exalted among them and in all the earth.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
readJob 1:20-22

Pray that those who mourn will worship God in the midst of their suffering and loss, recognizing He is the source of all good things and that He is worthy of their praise and trust.

Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
readPsalm 133:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be unified and love one another as God loves them.

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

Praise the God who is able to make a way forward, even when it seems impossible. Ask Him to do a new thing among this people group specifically and among the nations, raising up believers to go and share the gospel with individuals and places where it has not flourished before.

Lunda Across Countries (ROP3 - 105926) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress Index ▼LanguageReligion
LundaPG014635LundaCongo, Democratic Republic of the266,000No Longer UnreachedLundaRoman Catholicism
Northwest LundaPG015599Northwest LundaZambia367,000Engaged yet UnreachedLundaEthnoreligion
LundaPG015182LundaAngola402,000Engaged yet UnreachedLundaEthnoreligion

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