Togo
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Togo is a small country in West Africa. It has land borders with Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso, and the Gulf of guinea on the South.
The capital is Lome.
It is a small country, about 22,000 square miles.
History
In 1884, Germany declared a protectorate over a strip of Togo's coast, and eventually spread its control inland. It was Germany's only self-supporting colony.
In the first month of World War I, French and British troops invaded, and took the capital on August 26, 1914.[1]. After World War I, Togo was declared a mandate under French and British control.
Togo became independent on April 27th, 1960.
References
- â World War I, by HP Willmott, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2003