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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Psikye of Nigeria

The Psikye of Nigeria, numbering approximately 27,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Chadic-speaking Mandara Mountains people known as Kapsiki in Cameroon and Kamwe or Higi in Nigeria, organized into villages of several thousand and sustaining themselves through livestock farming and agriculture. They mostly adhere to Animism and Psikye is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Nigeria
People Cluster: Chadic
Primary Language(s): Psikye (kvj)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 27,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG014085
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Pray for the Psikye of Nigeria

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

57%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Psikye
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Psikye Speakers

Media Resources in Psikye:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Psikye:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1988 Bible Society of Cameroon✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Psikye bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Psikye 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 Psikye:
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 Psikye of Nigeria

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
readJohn 14:6

Pray that those who don't know Jesus will recognize Him as the only way to the Father and follow Him in faith.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
read2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
readPsalm 51:15

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will abide in Him, and God will help them to proclaim His praise and declare His goodness all day long.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
readLuke 10:1

Ask God to raise up, send out, and sustain Christians who can go together to share the good news of Jesus with those who need it.

Kapsiki Across Countries (ROP3 - 104619) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
KapsikiPG012633KapsikiCameroon137,000No Longer UnreachedPsikyeSunni Islam
PsikyePG014085PsikyeNigeria27,500Engaged yet UnreachedPsikyeAnimism

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