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9 unusual facts about Togo


Agbang Conventual Priory

A village leader offered them 23ha of bushland in Agbang, a village 20 km from the district town of Kara.

Chérif Touré Mamam

Cherif-Touré Mamam (born 13 January 1981 in Mango) is a Togolese footballer who plays as a midfielderfor the Togo national team.

Emmanuel Bob-Akitani

) is a Togolese politician who was the main opposition candidate in the 2003 and 2005 Togolese presidential elections.

Human trafficking in Togo

On June 15, 2007 five traffickers were convicted in the northern cities of Kara and Sokode.

Katcha

Katcha, Togo, a village in the Bassar Prefecture in the Kara Region

Koutammakou

Koutammouko, the Land of the Batammariba is a cultural landscape designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Togo.

Togo, Minnesota

Togo is an unincorporated community in Carpenter Township, Itasca County, Minnesota, United States.

Bearville Township is also in the vicinity.

Togolese presidential election, 2010

Speaking in Gnassingbé Eyadema's native region of Kara on 21 February, Kodjo said that, before breaking with President Eyadema in 2002, he was Eyadema's intended successor.


1974 Togo plane crash

The 1974 Togo plane crash refers to an incident on 24 January 1974, when a Togo Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain:5V-MAG carrying several notable political figures crashed at an isolated location near the village of Sarakawa in northern Togo.

Achatina achatina

The species is believed to be native to West Africa, within 100–190 miles of the coasts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Ghana, and Nigeria.

Adam El-Abd

On 15 May 2012, and for the first time, Egypt national team coach Bob Bradley included El-Abd in the squad for friendly games against Cameroon, Togo, and Senegal, and also against Mozambique in a FIFA World Cup Qualifier.

Agbang Conventual Priory

Incarnation Conventual Priory, Agbang, Kara, Togo, is a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Missionary Benedictines of Saint Ottilien.

Air Burkina

Air Burkina SA is the national airline of Burkina Faso, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination, Bobo-Dioulasso, as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Améleté Abalo

Améleté Abalo (March 7, 1962 – January 9, 2010) was the assistant coach of Togo national football team and manager of ASKO Kara.

Atlantic Bank Group

The holding company for the group is Atlantic Financial Group, based in Lome, Togo.

Bamab Napo

Bamab Napo (born 23 May 1984 in Dimouri, Togo) is a Togoese runner.

Benjamin Boukpeti

Born in Lagny-sur-Marne, France to a French mother, he holds dual Togolese-French citizenship and chose to represent Togo, the country of his father, in Olympic competition.

David Korn

David A. Korn (born 1930), former United States Ambassador to Togo

Fábio de Jesus Oliveira

Fábio de Jesus Oliveira (born March 30, 1981 in Ipatinga, Brazil), usually known as Fábio Oliveira, is a naturalized Togolese football midfielder, who plays for Águia de Marabá.

Fon people

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).

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.

Forces nouvelles

Coordination of New Forces or Coordination des forces nouvelles (CFN): A political party in Togo.

Geoffrey Kwame Tomtania

Through his efforts, they organized two mass evangelisms in the major cities of Lome, and Kara; and became Bonnke’s interpreter before the late president of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.

Gilbert Houngbo

Houngbo holds an advanced degree in business management from the University of Lomé in Togo, as well as a degree in accounting and finance from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in Canada.

Grand Landlodge of the Freemasons of Germany

In the course of the last years individual lodges have been established in Lome/Togo, Riga/Latvia and Monaco, of which only the first one in Lome is still a member of the Grand Landlodge.

Haeundae District

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup match between South Korea and Togo more than 50,000 spectators filled the beach to cheer for the Korean team on a giant projector screen.

Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros

Hamílton has been naturalized Togolese in 2003 across of Antônio Dumas, which this one was Togo's coach.

Horst Posdorf

Posdorf is one of six Members of the European Parliament participating in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.

Hubert Velud

Velud was shot in the arm in an attack by Angolan rebels while traveling with Togo's national football team to the 2010 African Cup of Nations.

Jean-Pierre Fabre

Born in Lomé in 1952, Fabre studied in Togo before attending university in Lille.

Juan Cuyami

His debut came on 11 October 2003 in a 1–0 win against Togo for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers (eventual 1–2 aggregate loss), in Bata.

Karl Hoffmann

Karl W. Hofmann (born 1961), former United States Ambassador to Togo

Ken Bugul

From 1986 to 1993, she worked for the NGO IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Foundation) in Nairobi, Kenya; Brazzaville, Congo; and Lomé, Togo.

Kodjo

Agbéyomé Kodjo (born 1954), Togolese politician and Prime Minister of Togo

Kpalimé

Palimé, formerly known as Kpalimé, is a city in Plateaux Region, Togo near the Ghanaian border, centred on the weaving industry and the surrounding cocoa plantations.

Leland Barrows

Leland Judd Barrows (October 27, 1906 – March 3, 1988) was an American ambassador to Cameroon and Togo.

Libambami Yedibahoma

Yedibahoma Datoma Libambani (born 13 January 1979) is a Togolese football striker who currently plays for Talia Club Seeb.

Mauro Lustrinelli

In Ticino, the Canton where Lustrinelli is originally from, after the great game against Togo a fanatic "Lustrimania" exploded.

Oboronia pseudopunctatus

It is found in Ghana (the Volta region), Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba) and north-western Tanzania.

Orchestra Baobab

Unlike other Senegalese bands, they combined the Casamance harmonies and drumming from southern Senegal with melodies from Togo and Morocco to the Wolof tradition from northern Senegal.

Paul Judge

He is a member of the President of Togo's International Advisory Council and on the Advisory Board for HEC in Paris, for the Athens University of Economics and Business and for the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

He is on the President of Togo's International Advisory Council and is a member of the Advisory Board for HEC in Paris, for the Athens University of Economics and Business and for the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

Phyllocrania paradoxa

Phyllocrania paradoxa have a wide range across the African continent and its islands and can be found in Angola, South Europe, Cameroon, Cape Province, Congo basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Transvaal, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Pierre-Antoine Dossevi

Pierre-Antoine Dossevi (born 17/01/52, Lomé, French Togoland) is a retired Togolese footballer.

Pugo and Togo

Pugo and Togo were a Filipino comedy team in Philippine movies during the 1940s up to 1950s.

Richard Dogbeh

Richard Dogbeh (born Gbèmagon Richard Dogbeh 1932 in what is now Togo; died November 23, 2003 in Cotonou) was a novelist and educator.

Serge Akakpo

He played his first international game for Togo, on 10 September 2008, against Zambia in Chililabombwe.

Sly Tetteh

He also ran academies in Ghana, Togo and Kenya and has been credited with discovering the talents of Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari, Asamoah Gyan, Derek Boateng, Kwadwo Asamoah, and John Paintsil.

Tahirih Justice Center

Fauziya Kassindja was a Togolese teenager who fled her native land in 1994 to escape from a forced polygamous marriage and a tribal practice of female genital cutting.

The House of Dolmann

By an odd coincidence several of Dolmann's puppets resemble those later created for Charles Band's Puppet Master movies, with Pinhead bearing a more than passing resemblance to Togo and Jester to Giggler and the Mole resembling a cross between Blade and Tunneler.

Théophile Nata

He studied French and literature for two years at the Higher Education Centre of Lomé, Togo, as well as at Abidjan University in Côte d'Ivoire and the Sorbonne.

Tōgō Shrine

The Tōgō Shrine (東郷神社 Tōgō-jinja) was built in 1940 and dedicated to Gensui (or 'Marshal-Admiral') The Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō shortly after his death.

Tounde Adekounle

Tounde Adekounle (born December 20, 1988 in Masséda) is a Togolese footballer, who currently plays for US Masseda.

Valdis Dombrovskis

Dombrovskis was also one of six Members of the European Parliament participating in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.

Zanzan Atte-Oudeyi

Mohammed Zanzan Atte-Oudeyi (commonly known simply as Zanzan) (born September 2, 1980 in Lomé) is a Togolese footballer.


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