WANGEN, Germany — Togo has turned this historic spa town into the Africa of the Alps. The Togolese flag is a more common sight than the national one these days as this community of 27,000 sheds its ...
In July 1884, the imperial German flag was raised for the first time on the African continent — not in Tanzania or Namibia, but in Togo. The tiny protectorate became Togoland, and because Germany's 30 ...