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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Hausa of Togo

The Hausa of Togo, numbering approximately 26,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as a West African diaspora people of Hausa origin, descended from communities rooted in Hausaland of northern Nigeria and southern Niger who established trading and settlement communities in Togo while maintaining a broader Hausa identity They are an Diaspora people, with Hausa as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Hausa people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Hausa is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Togo
People Cluster: Hausa
Primary Language(s): Hausa (hau)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 26,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG014358
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
%
Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Hausa
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
%
Hausa Speakers

Media Resources in Hausa:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
The SaviorView Film

3 films

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Bible Resources in Hausa:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1979 Bible Society of Nigeria✓
Common Language Version (FCBH Audio)✓✓
Littafi Mai Tsarki✓

3 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Hausa bible at Bible.com

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Hausa:
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Pray specifically for the Hausa of Togo

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
readJohn 3:19

Pray that God will have mercy on those who love the darkness they are walking in and turn from their sin to faith in Christ.

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.
readActs 13:48-49

Pray that the gospel will spread throughout this whole region and that many will believe and embrace the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
readJohn 10:29

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice as they remember that they can never lose their salvation

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
readPsalm 67:1-2

Pray that as God blesses believers from among this people group or from nearby cultures, He will raise them up to share His saving power among the nations.

Hausa Across Countries (ROP3 - 103733) reported in the following countries:

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19 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▲Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
HausaPG047465HausaCanada375Engaged yet UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaPG013409HausaGuinea1,500Engaged yet UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaPG050354HausaUnited States5,400Unengaged and UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaPG012404HausaBurkina Faso12,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG011263HausaAlgeria12,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaPG012971HausaCongo12,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG014358HausaTogo26,000Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG013165HausaEquatorial Guinea32,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG012869HausaCentral African Republic41,500Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG012327HausaBenin44,000Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG013188HausaGabon45,000Unengaged and UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG042724HausaEthiopia133,000Unengaged and UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaPG011360HausaChad295,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG013336HausaGhana322,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG012616HausaCameroon433,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG013089HausaCote d’Ivoire483,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG012037HausaSudan1,060,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaSunni Islam
HausaPG013600HausaNiger16,140,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam
HausaPG013828HausaNigeria40,560,000Engaged yet UnreachedHausaFolk Islam

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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