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Karma chameleons

These poor chaps, if powdered up and put into a drink, will help you be a bit luckier in love
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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 ... read more
Africa » Togo » Lome

Togolese Flag French Togoland became Togo in 1960. Gen. Gnassingbe EYADEMA, installed as military ruler in 1967, continued to rule well into the 21st century. Despite the facade of multiparty elections instituted in the early 1990s, the government continued to be ... ... read more
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