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| Togolese Republic République togolaise | |
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| Capital and largest city | Lomé |
| Demonym(s) | Togolese |
| Government | Unitary parliamentary republic under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie |
• President | Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové |
• Prime Minister | Faure Gnassingbé |
| Area | |
• Total | 57,000 km² |
| Population | |
• 2024 estimate | 9,583,381 |
| Currency | West African CFA franc (XOF) |
| Calling code | +228 |
| ISO 3166 code | TG |
| Internet TLD | .tg |
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa with a southern coast on the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east, and Burkina Faso to the north.
History[edit | edit source]
Colonization[edit | edit source]
Togo was a German colony until the First World War in which Togo was seized by France using troops from its colony of Senegal.[1]
Independence[edit | edit source]
President Sylvanus Olympio established a national central bank in December 1962, aiming to introduce an independent currency. Olympio was then assassinated on January 13, 1963 by French trained troops preventing Togo from breaking away from the CFA Franc, a French controlled neocolonial currency.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ The Editors, Black Agenda Review (2022-05-11). "ESSAY: Black Soldiers of Imperialism, George Padmore, 1931" Black Agenda Report.
- ↑ Ndongo Samba Sylla (2020-01-06). "The Franc Zone, a Tool of French Neocolonialism in Africa" Jacobin. Archived from the original on 2025-11-26.