ABSTRACT
The case of the Ewe in West Africa illustrates the difficulties arising from the drawing of former colonial boundaries through homogeneous tribal territories. Lying between the Volta and Mono rivers, and stretching inland from the coast for over eighty miles in places, the Ewe have been divided between the British, Germans and French in varying ways since the end of the nineteenth century. A great many solutions to the Ewe problem have been advanced in the past, but today only two radically opposed ideas receive any wide support. The first of these solutions is expressed in Ghana's view that the Ewe problem can only be solved by extending Ghana's boundary eastwards to include all of present-day Togo. The other solution, believed to be currently favoured by many Togolese, is the extension westwards of Togo's boundary to include all of the former British-administered trusteeship territory.
