The Ewe people are a Gbe-speaking ethnic group. The largest population of Ewe people is in Ghana, and the second largest population is in Togo. They speak the Ewe language which belongs to the Gbe family of languages. They are related to other speakers of Gbe languages such as the Fon, Gen, Phla /Phera, Ogun/Gun, Maxi, and the Aja people of Togo and Benin.
Ewe artwork
Fétiche Ewé-Togo
Eglise Saint-Augustin de Lomé was built in 1934 by the French.
Ewe kente cloth
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It is one of the least developed countries and extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capital, Lomé, is located. It is a small, tropical country, which covers 57,000 square kilometres and has a population of approximately 8 million, and it has a width of less than 115 km (71 mi) between Ghana and its eastern neighbour Benin.
Togoland (R. Hellgrewe, 1908)
The 2017–18 Togolese protests against the 50-year rule of the Gnassingbé family
First president of Togo from 1960 to 1963
Gnassingbé Eyadéma ruled from 1967 until his death in 2005.