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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Bamileke-Ngomba of Cameroon

The Bamileke-Ngomba of Cameroon, numbering approximately 133,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Cameroon. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Ngomba is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Bamileke-Ngomba

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Bantu, Cameroon-Bamileke
Primary Language(s): Ngomba (jgo)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 133,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012513
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Ngomba
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Ngomba Speakers

Media Resources in Ngomba:

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Bible Resources in Ngomba:

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Bamileke-Ngomba are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Bamileke-Ngomba:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Bamileke-Ngomba of Cameroon

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
readMatthew 5:6

Pray for those who are lost to desire righteousness and to be filled with the peace and purpose that only comes from following Jesus.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
readJames 4:4

Pray that the lost will be convicted of their friendship with the world, which is hostility toward God, and that they will turn from their sin and embrace the grace and mercy of God through Christ Jesus.

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.
readLuke 18:17

Pray that as people trust in Christ, they will have simple, childlike confidence that He will provide for their needs.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Ngomba Across Countries (ROP3 - 107276) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Bamileke-NgombaPG012513Bamileke-NgombaCameroon133,000Engaged yet UnreachedNgombaProtestantism

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