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The Bamileke-Tchang of Cameroon

The Bamileke-Tchang of Cameroon, numbering approximately 733,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Bamileke people of Dschang and the Menoua division in Cameroon's Grassfields, tracing origin through the Tikar dynasty founded with help from the Mbum princess Wouten before a seventeenth-century migration fleeing Chamba and Fulani pressure. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Yemba is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2025). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Bemileke-Tchang

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Bantu, Cameroon-Bamileke
Primary Language(s): Yemba (ybb)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 733,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012515
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yemba
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Yemba Speakers

Media Resources in Yemba:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Yemba:

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1 entry

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Or check out the Yemba bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Bamileke-Tchang 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-Tchang:
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-Tchang of Cameroon

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
readEphesians 2:8-9

Pray that the lost among them will receive the gift of salvation by grace through faith, not by works, and be created for good works.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
readJohn 3:14-15

Pray that the lost will look to Jesus lifted up on the cross and believe in Him, gaining eternal life with God.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
readPhilippians 3:20-21

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember their citizenship is in heaven.

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
readMatthew 6:9b-10

Pray that God will raise up Christians who are driven by a desire to see God's name worshiped, His kingdom come, and His will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Ask Him to send them to the lost in this people group and sustain them.

Bamileke-Tchang Across Countries (ROP3 - 100937) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Bamileke-TchangPG012515Bamileke-TchangCameroon733,000Engaged yet UnreachedYembaProtestantism

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