The Dogons live in a dry remote savannah area in Mali, spilling over into Burkina Faso and C te d'Ivoire. About 20 different languages are spoken in different communities. Unless they learn the language spoken by a neighbor, they would not understand each other even though they all identify themselves ethnically as Dogon. The Tomo Kan is one of these.
Dogon territory includes a rocky plateau in the West and a sandy plain in the east separated by a 400-700 meter high sheer cliff. The Dogon built their first villages in caves in this cliff, safe from slave raiders. Isolated and distrustful of outsiders, they grew into a scattering of micro-communities, eventually each with a different language.
Along with other West African peoples, the Tomo Kan Dogon are expert weavers in beautiful colors and designs cotton, silk or fibers extracted from bombax fruits. Woven blankets produced by their ancestors have been found dating back to the 11th and 12th centuries AD.
For centuries, the Dogon have resisted Islam. But as society modernizes, they are increasingly deciding that animistic religion is no longer adequate and grudgingly accept Islam for lack of an alternative or become Christians. The glise Chr tienne Evang lique church as well as the Roman Catholic church each have Dogon members.
The Tomo Kan Dogons need the spiritual hunger it takes to seek and find the Lord no matter what the cost.
Pray for the Lord to give the Tomo Kan Dogons a passionate love for Jesus Christ.
Pray there will soon come a day when they will go as Christ s ambassadors to disciple others.
Pray for their faith in Christ to increase as he blesses them spiritually and physically.
Scripture Prayers for the Dogon, Tomo Kan in Côte d'Ivoire.
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