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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Bago of Togo

The Bago of Togo, numbering approximately 13,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an Indigenous Gur community of central Togo associated with the neighboring Bago and Koussountou communities in Tchamba Prefecture. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Bago-Kusuntu is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Togo
People Cluster: Gur
Primary Language(s): Bago-Kusuntu (bqg)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 13,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG014317
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

79%
%
Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Bago-Kusuntu
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Bago-Kusuntu Speakers

Media Resources in Bago-Kusuntu:

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Bible Resources in Bago-Kusuntu:

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Pioneer Unreached People Group, (LPI: 1), 0.1% or Greater but Less than 0.5% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Bago:
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Pray specifically for the Bago of Togo

But he said, "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
readLuke 18:27

Praise God that He is the God of impossible things and that He is able to save even those who seem beyond hope.

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
readRomans 5:11

Pray for the gospel to advance and for more people to be brought into God's family through the reconciliation Jesus offers them.

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
readLamentations 3:24

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and walk through trials, they will be satisfied with the Lord as their portion and will place all their hope in Him.

Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
readPsalm 34:3

Pray that God will raise up believers who will go to those in this people group who do not yet follow Jesus, and that they will invite many to magnify the Lord with them so that His fame will spread to the ends of the earth.

Bago Across Countries (ROP3 - 100753) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
BagoPG014317BagoTogo13,500Unengaged and UnreachedBago-KusuntuFolk Islam

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