Chargement en cours...Chargement en cours...Chargement en cours...Chargement en cours..."The past is never dead. It's not even past." — Archives of Petit Popo, 1895.
Before Lomé, there was Zébé. How this Aného neighborhood, chosen by the German Empire in 1887, became the administrative and medical seat of Togo.
Between the 1960s and 1980s, a group of Togolese women took total control of the Dutch wax fabric trade in West Africa. Inside an empire built on printed cloth.
Wrought-iron balconies, pastel facades, and carved doors: how former slaves returning from Bahia redesigned the geometry of Aného in the 19th century.
Historical reconstruction of the German wharf of Petit Popo. A major colonial infrastructure swallowed by the sea.
Inventory of colonial documents available for researchers and genealogists. Sources for the history of Aného.
Thirty years of German presence in Aného. From Gustav Nachtigal's arrival to the 1914 defeat, how Togoland lived under Berlin's tutelage.
Origin of the name Lolan, its foundation in 1821, and the architectural history of the palace of the Lawson kings of Aného, seat of the Guin kingdom.
The chronological register kept by the Lawson family from 1841 to 1938, published by Oxford University Press. A unique window into Atlantic trade seen from Africa.
From the 17th-century migration from Accra to settling on the lagoon, how the Guin-Mina people founded Petit Popo and built a coastal kingdom.
Aného's role in the slave trade. Between painful memory and the duty of transmission, how Petit Popo remembers the Slave Coast.
The French mandate viewed from Aného. Social and economic transformations, resistance, and Togo's march toward independence.
The evolution of Aného's territory through old maps, from the 17th century to today. From Portuguese portolans to modern satellites.
The little-known episode when Petit Popo became the seat of German colonial power. How Aného governed Togoland for eleven years before giving way to Lomé.
Dive into the layers of Aného's history, once the capital of German Togo, nestled between Gothic architecture and a sacred lagoon.
The story of the SVD Mission's establishment in 1895 and the construction of the first major Catholic edifice facing Aného's sea spray.
How a local interpreter sent to England in the 18th century returned to found one of the most powerful royal houses on the Guinean coast.
Commercial and maritime registers of the port of Petit Popo.
Family tree of the city's royal families and notables.
Hydrographic surveys of the Mono River and lagoon.