ABSTRACT
All traditions agree that the Ewe-speaking people came from somewhere in the north, and though each sub-tribe gives a slightly different version of the story, it seems to be generally accepted that they migrated from a place called Kotu or Amedzowe, somewhere east of the Niger, following conquest, and thereafter settled down in a place called Notsie, usually considered to be Nuatja, in what is now French Togoland. According to these traditions, in the time of an oppressive chief named Agokoli some three centuries ago, the inhabitants of Notsie separated into three main groups, a northern, a middle and a southern group, each of which migrated to, and settled in, different parts of South Togoland, their present home.1
