Despite the fact that today Lome is the capitol of the Republic of Togo where French is the official language, one can still find along its quiet streets remnants of its unlikely German past.
Lome was once the crown jewel in the German colonial empire which was founded in 1884 and lasted until the end of World War I.
Togoland, as the region was known, became a German colony in February 1884 when German soldiers kidnapped some local potentates at the town of Aneho – a former Portuguese slave market and coerced them into signing a treaty of protection.
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