In the Juan Liscano historian´s opinion, before of 1700 the Fon of Whydah, Dahomey, sold to European traders members of the following tribes (Liscano, 1950: 74 s): Wida, Popo, Adja (residents in southeastern Togo and Benin southeast), Ketou (perhaps the city of the same name in Benin), Ewe and Mahi (residents in Abomey, the old capital of Dahomey Empire).
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According to them, between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries some of the Aja people, originating from Tado, a village in south east Togo, to the banks of the Mono River, emigrated to the eastern part of its territory, now Benin, and founded the town of Allada.
Of Fon origins, he entered the national political stage in 1963, when he quelled riots started by supporters of former president Hubert Maga.
The name may have originated from the Africa's Southern Dahomey Fon area term 'to-gun', which means "place of assembly".
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So, according the historian Karl Watson, most slaves imported into Barbados were Akans (Ashanti and Fante from Ghana), Ewe and Fon (coming both from Benin).
The various ethnic groups as Fon, Ewe, Fante, Ashanti, mine to come in Brazil, were called "djedje", deployed here in your worship Salvador, Cachoeira and São Félix in Bahia, and São Luís of Maranhão, then spread itself to several Brazilian states.
:African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba), Europeans 10,000