Religion and History in Togo

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Togo divides between a Christian south, concentrated among the Ewe and Mina peoples, and a more Muslim and traditionalist north, with vodun and other indigenous religious practice remaining widespread across the whole country rather than confined to any one region. The term voodoo itself entered global usage through Togolese and neighboring Beninese practice. About 57 per cent of the population is Christian and 16 per cent Muslim, with the remainder following indigenous or folk religion or holding no religious affiliation.

Traditional annual festivals such as the Guin community's Epe Ekpe and the Kabye Evala wrestling rites remain occasions when indigenous religion and Christian or Muslim identity visibly overlap in the same families, a pattern of layered rather than exclusive religious identity that runs through Togolese life more broadly. Fast growing charismatic and neo-Pentecostal congregations have become a significant share of Togolese Christianity in recent decades, changing the country's Christian landscape even as its older Catholic and mainline Protestant churches remain rooted in the colonial-era missions that first brought them.