Country/Region of Manufacture: Rwanda

Culture: African






























Title

Mituku  Statue

Types of object

Statue

County of origin

Democratic Republic of congo

People

lega

Materials

Wood

Approximate size

39 cm-- 15 inches high/weight


 




 




Mituku
People


 


Affinity
Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples


Affinity
Bloc: Sub-Saharan African


People
Cluster: Bantu, Central-Congo


Language: Mituku -
(zmq)


Alternate
Name(s): Kinya-Mituku


Primary
Religion: Christianity - Roman Catholicism


Country: Congo
(Kinshasa)


Also found
in:


Population:
101,000


Global
Population: 101,000


Progress of
the Gospel: Engaged yet Unreached


Global
Status of Evangelical Christianity: Less than 2% Evangelical, Concentrated CP
Activity


 


Overview: The
Mituku of Congo (Kinshasa), numbering 101,000, are Engaged yet Unreached. They
are part of the Bantu, Central-Congo people cluster within the Sub-Saharan
African affinity bloc. This people group is only found in Congo (Kinshasa).
Their primary language is Mituku. The primary religion practiced by the Mituku
is Roman Catholicism, the largest branch of the Christian church and one of the
oldest religious institutions in the world. Roman Catholicism teaches that it
is the one true Churches founded by Jesus Christ and that its bishops are the
successors of Christ.