The Kambole of Togo

The Kambole of Togo, numbering approximately 72,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Yoruboid community of northern Togo tracing its founding to a 14th-15th-century Ife hunter, Ode Amon, who migrated from Nigeria, keeping close linguistic ties to the Nago-Yoruba peoples despite living among the region's Gur-speaking majority They are an Indigenous people, with Kambole as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Yoruba people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Folk Islam and Northern Nago is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Togo
People Cluster: Yoruba
Primary Language(s): Northern Nago (xkb)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Islam
Population: 72,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG014374
View on Joshua Project

Pray for the Kambole of Togo

Join others around the world in praying for the lost to be saved, the gospel to advance, the global Church to grow, and for laborers to be sent out and sustained in the harvest.

Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

80%
%
Folk Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Northern Nago
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Nago, Northern Speakers

Media Resources in Northern Nago:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Northern Nago:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

Or check out the Northern Nago bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Kambole 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 Kambole:
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 Kambole of Togo

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
readMatthew 28:16-20

Pray that those who don't yet know Him will encounter the risen Savior and be transformed by the power of His resurrection, becoming disciples who make disciples.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
readRevelation 4:11

Pray that the good news will advance and people will recognize and worship the One who created all things by His will, giving glory and honor to Him alone.

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
readActs 2:42

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will devote themselves to God's Word, to fellowship with each other, and to prayer.

O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart.
readPsalm 15:1-2

Ask God to send believers who will go and, with integrity, walk blamelessly and do what is right, speaking truth about the Lord with those who need to learn about His redemption plan.

Kambole Across Countries (ROP3 - 104526) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
All

1 people group

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

Peoplegroups.org relies on updates from the field and other organizations for much of our data, so if you have any updates, please contact us. We use various international naming standards. For a list of these standards and fields, visit our Data Standards section.

Scroll to Top