There’s more to Togo than surprise canoeing bronze medallists and Emmanuel Adebayor.
Questions
Along with Ghana to the west and Benin to the east, which third country borders Togo, lying to its north?
BURKINA FASO
Taken from the French language, how does the National Anthem of Togo “Terre de nos aïeux” translate?
LAND OF OUR ANCESTORS
Spoken by 20 million people across Ghana, Togo and Benin, which member of the Gbe languages shares its name with an animal and is a recognised national language in Togo?
EWE
Not having as many speakers as Ewe, which other major Gbe language is spoken mainly in Benin, that being the only country in which it is an official language?
FON
Other than Ewe, what is a recognised national language of Togo spoken primarily in the north of the country? It has about 1 million speakers, and people of this ethnicity dominate the Togolese government and military.
KABIYE
With British Togoland voting to join the independent country of Ghana in 1957, from which other country did Togo gain its independence in 1960?
FRANCE
How is the organisation ZPCAS or ZOPACAS of which Togo is a part known in English, with there being 21 African members along with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay?
SOUTH ATLANTIC ZONE OF PEACE AND CO-OPERATION
Giving his name to a medal awarded by the Berlin Geographical Society, which German explorer signed an 1884 treaty with Mlapa III in the town of Togoville that saw Germany claim dominion over the area?
GUSTAV NACHTIGAL
The Germans lost their claim to the area as part of which 1914 campaign, which included the Affair of Agbeluvoe and Affair of Khra? The country was partitioned by the British and French in 1916, with League of Nations mandates issued in 1922.
TOGOLAND CAMPAIGN
What term was used for the successors to the League of Nations mandates, coming into being when the League of Nations was disbanded in 1946 and including both British and French Togoland?
UNITED NATIONS TRUST TERRITORIES
A graduate from the London School of Economics, which first Togolese president won the 1961 election with 100% of the votes thanks to an election boycott, two years later becoming the first African president to assassinated in a military coup?
SYLVANUS OLYMPIO
Being overthrown by Gnassingbé Eyadema in a 1967 bloodless coup, who was chosen by the military to be the second president of Togo after the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio?
NICOLAS GRUNITZKY
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