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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Vagala of Ghana

The Vagala of Ghana, numbering approximately 18,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Ghana. They mostly adhere to Animism and Vagla is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Ghana
People Cluster: Gur
Primary Language(s): Vagla (vag)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 18,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG013384
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

55%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Vagla
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Vagla Speakers

Media Resources in Vagla:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Vagla:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1977 Bible League Intl.✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Vagla bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Vagala 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 Vagala:
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 Vagala of Ghana

For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
readPsalm 97:9

Pray that those who don't yet know Him will recognize the Lord as the Most High and turn from spiritual darkness to worship Him above all else.

But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.
readMark 4:20

Pray that those who have never encountered the gospel will have the opportunity to receive it, and that it will fall on good soil and bear much fruit.

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
readPsalm 149:4

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be encouraged and feel immeasurably loved as they meditate on the fact that God takes pleasure in them.

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.

Vagala Across Countries (ROP3 - 110480) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▲Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
VagalaPG013384VagalaGhana18,500No Longer UnreachedVaglaAnimism

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