Sakpata

Sakpata is worshipped among the Fon, Ewe, Adja and other Gbe-speaking peoples, from the west of present-day Nigeria to the Volta Region. He is the Dahomean form of the Yoruba Sopona, god of smallpox, and can both heal and inflict illness and madness.

Oral history says smallpox decimated their ancestors at Adja Tado until a Yoruba man called Torgbui Anyi cured them. Sakpata is one of the most worshipped of their gods.