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.

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The Yari 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 the Yari culture. They very rarely convert to Christianity to this point, but other ethnic groups around them have been converted to their Islamic beliefs.