The Togoland was an area of the western African under Germanic Protectorat of 1884 with 1914. It was located at horse on current the Togo and Ghana.
The German explorer Gustav Nachtigal arrived at Togoville and asked Otto von Bismarck to send a special police chief. A treaty was signed the July 5th 1884 between Nachtigal and the local leader Mlapa III, granting a protectorate on the edges of the Coast-with-the Or. Germany extended its zone of influence. It established cultures of Cacao, Café and Coton while creating infrastructures.
The First World War was declared in 1914, when the Anglo-French troops invaded Togoland on August 6th by taking the town of Lome and while moving towards the radio station of Kamina. The colony went the August 26th after the Germans had destroyed the station. France and the United Kingdom then divided the country into two administrative zones in December.
After the defeat of Germany, the mandates of class B were allotted by the Société of the Nations:
- in France for the Eastern Togo, which obtained its independence in 1955 with the creation of the Togo
- with the the United Kingdom for the Western Togo, which was attached to the Ghana in 1956.
See too
external bonds
- History of Togo
- Chart of Togoland
- flag proposed for Togoland
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