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Photo Source:
Erik Laursen, New Covenant Missions
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Map Source:
People Group location: IMB. Map geography: ESRI / GMI. Map design: Joshua Project.
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People Name: | Hausa |
Country: | Congo, Republic of the |
10/40 Window: | No |
Population: | 12,000 |
World Population: | 55,414,400 |
Primary Language: | Hausa |
Primary Religion: | Islam |
Christian Adherents: | 0.00 % |
Evangelicals: | 0.00 % |
Scripture: | Complete Bible |
Online Audio NT: | No |
Jesus Film: | Yes |
Audio Recordings: | Yes |
People Cluster: | Hausa |
Affinity Bloc: | Sub-Saharan Peoples |
Progress Level: |
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The Hausa people in Africa have been heavily involved in long distance trading for centuries. Traders exchanged gold from the Middle East for leather, crafts and food.
Some have wrongly assumed that Boko Haram comes from the Hausa because the term itself is from the Hausa language. But Boko Haram is mainly from Kanuri and Fulani as well as other tribes.
Hausa people are prominent in Nigeria, but there are many of them in other African countries including Congo.
Today members of the Hausa community are highly trained, educated and assimilated into the political and social life. Some of the Hausas have become very rich. They are deeply involved in the politics of their communities.
Hausa buildings are characterized by the use of dry mud bricks in cubic structures, multi-storied buildings for the social elite, the use of parapets related to their military/fortress building past, and traditional white stucco and plaster for house fronts. At times the facades may be decorated with various abstract relief designs, sometimes painted in vivid colors to convey information about the occupant.
The Hausa culture is strongly linked to Islam, which makes it difficult to reach this people group with the gospel. There has been intense persecution of the Christian Hausa.
Because Islam has been carried throughout West Africa by Hausa traders and priests, nearly everyone expects a Hausa to be Muslim. This could be one of the main reasons why the Hausa stay so resistant to the gospel and have difficulty leaving their Islamic faith.
Adequate Christian resources are available in the Hausa language, but they are still an unreached Muslim people group. The Hausa people need to see their critical need for the Savior, who loves them and desires a personal relationship with them. They need to see past their worldly success, and see that they will not be accepted by the creator of the universe except through His son, Jesus.
Pray that the Holy Spirit will allow circumstances into the lives of Hausa people in Congo that will point to their sinfulness and their need for the Savior.
Pray that they will see that their Islamic religion is not working.
Pray that there will soon be a Disciple-Making movement among Hausa in Congo people that will spread throughout Africa.