ABSTRACT
The Ewe-speaking people have never formed a single political unit but have remained a loose collection of independent sub-tribes ; and though some of these groups formed alliances in time of war, these were only temporary, breaking up when peace was restored ; there has never been a political confederation of Ewe sub^tribes. “ It seems to have been left to the European administration to begin the welding together of the sub-tribes into larger, centralised groups, and to the effects of European rule to create a national, pan-Ewe consciousness.” 1 The present strongly organised pan-Ewe movement for political unification under a single administration, which today commands very widespread support among the people, originated with a few educated British and French Ewe as recently as 1945.
