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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Yocoboue Dida of Cote d’Ivoire

The Yocoboue Dida of Cote d’Ivoire, numbering approximately 229,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Kru people of south-central Cote d'Ivoire near Lakota, Divo, and Grand Lahou, one of three linguistically distinct Dida varieties, who fiercely resisted French colonial conquest in a nine-year insurgency ending in 1918. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Yocoboué Dida is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Dida, Yocoboue

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cote d’Ivoire
People Cluster: Kru
Primary Language(s): Yocoboué Dida (gud)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 229,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG013150
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yocoboué Dida
Language Family: Kru

100%
%
Dida, Yocoboué Speakers

Media Resources in Yocoboué Dida:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

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Bible Resources in Yocoboué Dida:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Alliance Biblique de Côte d'Ivoire, 2014✓

1 entry

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Yocoboue Dida 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 Yocoboue Dida:
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 Yocoboue Dida of Cote d’Ivoire

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life"
readJohn 4:13-14

Pray that those who don't know Jesus will drink of the living water that only Christ can provide and never thirst again.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
readPsalm 57:10

Pray that God will work, even in the hearts of hard-to-reach people, and that they will rejoice in His steadfast love and faithfulness.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
readHebrews 12:1-2

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember the testimony of those who went before them, resist sin, and run with perseverance the race set before them, fixing their eyes on Jesus.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
read1 Corinthians 15:3-4

Pray that God will raise up believers to go to the lost and faithfully proclaim the good news of Jesus' death and resurrection so that all may have an opportunity to access and believe.

Dida, Yocoboue Across Countries (ROP3 - 111082) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Yocoboue DidaPG013150Yocoboue DidaCote d’Ivoire229,000Engaged yet UnreachedYocoboué DidaEthnoreligion

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