Bible in Borgu Fulfulde for the First Time

Bible translation in Borgu Fulfulde is completed!

More than 750,000 Fulani in Bénin speak a unique dialect of the Fulfulde language – Borgu – and have long needed a unique Bible translation.

With a heart for these people, teams set about such a translation several decades ago teams, aiming to allow the word of God to speak in the heart language of hundreds of thousands of Fulani.

In 2011, the New Testament was translated and published. And at the start of 2024, the translation of the Old Testament was completed by SIM team members in collaboration with The Seed Company and SIM’s church partner in Benin. union of Beninese churches originally planted by SIM.

An SIM worker, who is close to the project, said: “We are very grateful to our long-standing partners, who are doing an incredible job. Up to now, the Fulani people in Benin have been using the Fulfulde Bible from Cameroon in their Bible school in N'Dali, which has portions of Scripture that were the closest to their dialect.”

The translation teams sincerely hope that this Bible will be a resource that will reach many Fulani people in Benin, in their heart language. It is up to the local churches working among these people to make use of this resource. In 2020, it was estimated that up to 10.000 Fulani people in Benin were attending the UEEB churches.

This article was first published by SIM France-Belgium in French.

Pray

That the Borgu Fulfulde Bible would be made widely available to Fulani people throughout Benin

For more mission workers with a heart for the Fulani to be called by God to serve in Benin and other parts of West Africa

For many Fulani to read the Bible and become convinced of the claims of Jesus Christ and to know he is their saviour.

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