The Gciriku (Rugciriku: vaGciriku) are one of the many ethnic groups in Namibia with a population of 50,529 as of 2023.
A small number of Gciriku live in the southern part of Angola.
In the early 1900s, the Gciriku became the first tribal group in the Kavango area to accept European missionaries.
Only after the seventh journey did missionary and later Archbishop Joseph Gotthardt manage to establish a mission station at Nyangana in 1910 and at Andara in 1913, using the severely weakened position of the King after the VaGciriku-Lishora Massacre of 1894.
The language is also part of the school curriculum and the subject is called Rumanyo.