Wala
Quick facts about the Wala
- Location: Burkina Faso, Ghana
- Also Known As: Waala, Dagara-Jula, Dagaari-Jula, Yarsi
- Status: Engaged by IMB
- Population: 160,000
- Primary Religion: Islam
- Number of Christians: approx. 235
- Language: Wali, Yari, Dagara-Jula
- Strong in Islamic beliefs
- Famers
- Known to be resistant to the gospel
- Known to be proselytizers of others
- 99.9% Muslim
Pray that the Lord would so radically transform the Wala that they could be used by Him to convert others to Christ in a similar but more glorious way than they have converted some of their ethnic neighbors to Islam.
Learn more about the Wala!
The Wala entered into Burkina as salt and kola nut merchants. However, for the most part they are farmers.
The practice of their Islamic beliefs is the strongest characteristic of their culture. They very rarely convert to Christianity to this point, but other ethnic groups around them have been converted to their Islamic beliefs.
RESOURCES
- Wala Profile with Bridges and Barriers (DOC, 26KB)
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