GhanaandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
4 SHARED EVENTSTogo

Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · GHA LEFT · TGO RIGHT

1. by the 13th century

   Ewe ancestors present in the region

   By oral tradition and scholarly reconstruction, the ancestors of the Ewe had moved into the Togo–Ghana region from the east, settling around Tado and later the town of Notsé before their dispersal.

   Peoples & Migration · from the Togo chronicle · Peoples, migrations and the land · REFS 3 — Exodus of the Ewe from Notsé, Togo (country overview and history), Togo

2. c. 15th–17th centuries

   The Ewe exodus from Notsé

   Ewe tradition tells of escape from the walled town of Notsé and the tyranny of King Agokoli, after which the people dispersed westward and southward — a foundational narrative of Ewe identity across Ghana, Togo and Benin.

   Peoples & Migration · from the Togo chronicle · Peoples, migrations and the land · REFS 2 — Exodus of the Ewe from Notsé, Togo (country overview and history)

3. late 17th century

   Founding of Aného (Petit-Popo)

   Ane settlers fleeing conflict around Elmina in present-day Ghana founded Aného on the Togolese coast; it grew into the region's chief commercial and slaving port and would later briefly serve as a colonial capital.

   Peoples & Migration · from the Togo chronicle · The coast, the Guin and the Slave Coast · REFS 2 — Aného, Togo (country overview and history)

4. 9 May 1956

   British Togoland votes to join Ghana

   In a UN-supervised plebiscite, about 58 per cent of British Togoland's voters chose union with the Gold Coast; the territory was integrated into Ghana, which became independent in 1957.

   Politics & Power · from the Togo chronicle · Conquest, partition and the mandates · REFS 3 — 1956 British Togoland status plebiscite, British Togoland, History of Togo