Togo - Woold Homé

"Woold Homé", d’après l’appellation locale, est la maison de Woold, commerçant et négrier anglais. Cette maison est construite peu après l’installation à Agbodrafor en 1835 d’une fraction du clan Adjigo chassée d’Aného et conduite par le Chef Assiakoley. Habitués à la pratique de l’esclavage sur les côtes d’Aného, le chef et ses notables ne pouvaient abandonner ce commerce juteux malgré les injonctions des puissances occidentales et la surveillance des croisières antiesclavagistes dans le Golfe du Bénin. Le chef Assiakoley usa de subterfuge et fit construire ce bâtiment de 21,60 mètres de long et de 9,95 mètres de large, composé de six chambres, d’un salon, des couloirs de 1,5 mètre de large et une cave de 1,50 mètre de hauteur sur tout le pourtour de l’édifice. Il affecta les chambres chichement aménagées à l’hébergement des négriers, et la cave, à l’état nature, au casernement des esclaves. Dans cette cave, il était impossible de se mettre debout. L’esclave restait assis, accroupi ou couché dans une moiteur indescriptible.

Togo - Kéran National Park and the Oti-Mandouri Wildlife Reserve

The Kéran National Park and the Wildlife Reserve form a complex of 310,640 ha and are part of the operating system of the Park W (Niger) complex and associated areas of about 5,000,000 ha. These entities are natural areas within which the conservation of biological diversity is carried out. They offer the splendid spectacle of a perfect symbiosis between a flora of rare beauty, a wide range of terrestrial animals, aquatic and birds, a relief reflecting variations of altitudes, and a well-supplied hydrographic network. Geomorphologically, the area is settled in a peneplain dissected by Precambrian rocks and granites (Boateng, 1970). The Togo mountains follow the south-east of Kéran as to mark and reinforce the scenery. The hydrographic network is made up of two rivers: the Oti, swollen of rivers Oualé which has its source in Burkina Faso and Pendjari come from Benin, and the Koumongou.

Togo - Fazao Mafakassa National Park

The Fazao-Malfakassa National Park is located in the central section of the Togo Mountains, which gives the area, the variability of the relief and watercourses, the vegetation and the distribution of fauna, and leaves no visitor indifferent. 1. At the floristic level, the Fazao-Malfakassa National Park is included in the mid-altitude subhumid zone (ecofloristic zone V, following the division of VANPRAET, 1980). The beauty and the richness of the vegetation force the admiration. Four facies of vegetation are distinguished: · Semi-deciduous forests characterized by gallery forests with species such as Anogeissus leocarpus of very large size as well as species such as Khaya, Vitex spp, Cola cordifolia, etc. ; · Forests with species such as Afzelia africana, Isoberlinia doka, Terminalia spp, etc. ; · The wooded savannahs of which the most representative species are Prosopis africana, Bauhinia toninguii, Gardenia rubenius, Lophira lenceolata; · Degraded savannahs made from species of the genus Hymenocardia acida, Nauclea latifolia, Lophira lenceolata. There are also graminaceous species in all these ecosystems, including Laggera anxita, Andropogon gayanus, Adonodolichos paniculatum and Pennissetum purperium.

Togo - The governors' palaces

The Palace of the Governors was built from 1898 to 1905 under the technical direction of the German engineer FURTKAMP, following the decision of the Governor August KOHLER - the one who erected Lomé as Capital of Togo - to build a palace enough representative that is recognizable at a distance of a thousand kilometers to impress boats. This building is a true masterpiece, distinguished by its "functional form" or "performance form". He aspired, at the time, to the search for prestige, demonstration of power and pride of the German colony. The "head-high" architecture at first glance not only recalls that of the metropolis whose aura it reflects, but it also rhymes - proudly - with the rating of "the German model colony" that constituted the Togo at the time. For the construction, the Germans were able to show a clever combination of local materials, imported materials and German technology. Fired red bricks, iron and steel bars, cement, solid wood planks, plates, corrugated sheets are the main building blocks of this structure. The building is surmounted by two crowns, one male carrying the imperial flag facing the ocean, and the other female, pointed towards the city and the "hinterland", eloquent translation of a whole symbol, that of the dualism of the life but much more that of a comfortable and dissuasive presence on the one hand, prestige, majesty, or royalty, on the other hand, all materializing the function assigned to this building.

Togo - The Alédjo Wildlife Reserve

The Alédjo Faunal Reserve is located in the prefectures of Tchaoudjo and Assoli. Straddling the Central and Kara regions, the Alédjo area is bounded on the north by the Kpéwa village, on the south by the Aléhéridè village, on the east by the Kpéwa - Kadara track and on the west by the Efolo village and localities. atypical. Listed in a section of the Togo Mountains, the Alédjo Wildlife Reserve is a 765 ha natural area that is involved in the conservation of biological diversity and the protection of local geological and physiographic formations. It is part of the Forests Classes, and proudly displays an admirable relief and a very varied vegetation, with in its heart, a fault - the "Faille Alédjo" - resulting from the effort of the man who knew how to pass a motorized road through a natural rock as voluminous. Geomorphologically, it belongs to the structural unit of Atakora resulting from a movement of depression and landslide. Remarkable plant formations are dense dry mountain forests, clear forests at Isoberlinia, Anogeissus, Chlorophora excelsa, Voacanga funtumia.

Togo - Agglomeration Aného-Glidji

The ancient city, whose construction dates back to the late 17th and early 18th centuries, was founded by Guin immigrants who settled here following the wars with the Ashanti of present-day Ghana. Like the natives, the Guin imposed their language and created an original civilization. The situation of the city, formerly known as Petit Popo, bordered by the sea predisposed it to trade with the West: slave trade, of which Ouidah in Benin was one of the main ports of embarkation, and commercial exchanges. Under German colonization and until 1897, Aného became the capital of this "model colony" that was Togo. An administrative city was built beyond the lagoon, in the district of Zébé.