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August 20th 2007 Togo is a prime example of the madness, or ineptitude, or spitefulness, of colonial administration - or perhaps a bit of all three. Sandwiched between the slave-trading empires of the Ashanti and the Dahomey, the Togolese lost a lot of their folks to slavery. The Germans invaded in the 1880s, and found an obscure, and suitably-pliant, village chief, who signed a treaty of protection with t
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