Togoville, settled on the shore of Lake Togo, holds stories linked to voodoo and German colonization. Kara, in the northern region, is a hub of ethnic traditions and ancestral rituals. The best ...

The Koutammakou landscape in north-eastern Togo, which extends into neighbouring Benin, is home to the Batammariba whose remarkable mud tower-houses (Takienta) have come to be seen as a symbol of Togo ...

Right across Koutammakou, several thousand sikien have thus been identified, including 1,400 still inhabited in Benin and 1,716 in Togo. Maintaining the sikien (mud tower-houses) requires the ...