ABSTRACT
The Republic of Togo was created from the French share of the former German colony, the British portion having been absorbed by Ghana. The Ewe tribe of the south numbering 700,000 are divided by the frontier and their leaders have pressed for reunification. Various groups have favoured the unification of the two Togos, or unity with Ghana. With only 1·4 million inhabitants, Togo is the second smallest West African state. The people of the northern savanna country are of Sudanic origin. The most populous districts are in the south, where the people are predominantly Negroid, depending mainly on cassava, maize and copra; in the hill refuges of the Togo-Atacora Range, the people grow sorghum, groundnuts and cotton. Togoland is thus essentially an agricultural country, growing enough foodstuffs to feed its population, and exporting some coffee and cocoa, together with palm produce, cotton and copra.
