Seeking the Greater Glory of Ghana: How outread can expand
Ghana has a population of over 24 million. The Church has at least some materials translated into the native languages of at least 10 million of those people. Another significant number are fluent in English. However this still leaves many people hard to reach.
The Church has a District established in Tamale, Ghana. The units there hold meetings in English. However Tamale is the center of the area where Dagbani is spoken. Dagbani and other languages that are mutually inteligible with it have a combined number of speakers of over 1 million. Dagbani is also related to Mossi, one of the three official languages of Burkina Fasso, but I am not sure if the relationship is close enough that materials published in Dagbani would be readable to speakers of Mossi.
In the north-west of Ghana there are the Dagaaba who number over 700,000 in Ghana, and a total of over 1 million with those in Burkina Faso. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has yet to establish a branch anywhere among the Dagaaba. However many Dagaaba migrated to the region of Ghana with its capital in Sunyani, most heavily in the 1980s. The Church does have a district based in Sunyani that was formed back in 2012, so it may be that missionaries could be called from Sunyani to go teach the gospel to relatives back home.
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