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The Dompago of Togo

The Dompago of Togo, numbering approximately 25,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Gur-speaking farming people, also called Yoa-Lokpa, settled around Kemerida in Benin's Atakora Province with related communities across the border in Togo, their Lukpa language still in stable everyday use despite no formal place in schooling. They mostly adhere to Animism and Lukpa is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Dompago

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Togo
People Cluster: Gur
Primary Language(s): Lukpa (dop)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 25,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG014340
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Pray for the Dompago of Togo

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

80%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Lukpa
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Lukpa Speakers

Media Resources in Lukpa:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

3 films

Provided by the Jesus Film Project

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Bible Resources in Lukpa:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2001 Bible Society of Benin✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Lukpa bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Dompago are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Dompago:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Dompago of Togo

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that those who haven't heard will hear the Word of Christ and believe in Him, calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
readMatthew 24:14

Pray that the gospel of God's kingdom will reach more people and that they will respond in faith, becoming disciples of Jesus Christ.

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
readHebrews 10:26

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will live with reverence for God and not deliberately keep sinning after they receive the knowledge of the truth.

And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men." And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
readMark 1:17-18

Pray that God will raise up believers from this place and/or other cultures nearby to proclaim the gospel to those who desperately need to encounter it.

Dompago Across Countries (ROP3 - 102695) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
DompagoPG012336DompagoBenin127,000Unengaged and UnreachedKabiyèAnimism
DompagoPG014340DompagoTogo25,500No Longer UnreachedLukpaAnimism

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