Togo

Royal Palace Museum

The Royal Palace, also known as King Toffa's Palace and more recently Musée Honmé, is a former royal residence and today museum in Porto-Novo, Benin.It contains an example of an Alounloun and most displays are related to the King Toffa period.The palace and the surrounding district was added to th…

Wli waterfalls

Wli Waterfalls is the highest waterfall in Ghana and the tallest in West Africa. It has a lower and an upper fall.Wli Waterfalls is located 20 km from Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana.A walk through the forest of the Agumatsa wildlife sanctuary offers a chance to see a large colony of fruit bats…

Tafi Atome Wildlife Monkey Sanctuary

Mount Aduadu

Mount Aduadu is the second highest mountain in Ghana, standing at an elevation of c. 746 metres (2,448 ft). The mountain is located in the Agumatsa Range near the villages of Gblede, Liati Wote and Wli, in the Volta Region of Ghana at the border with Togo.The highest mountain in Ghana is Mount Lakle…

Battle of Chra

The Affair of Khra [Chra] (affair, an action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle) was fought by British and French troops against German soldiers and paramilitary police in the village of Khra, near the Khra river on 22 August 1914, during the Togoland Campaign of the Fir…

Holy Spirit Cathedral, Kpalimé

The Holy Spirit Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint Esprit de Kpalimé) or simply Cathedral of Kpalimé, is a religious building located in the town of Kpalimé (also written Palimé) in the southern part of the African country of Togo.The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the se…

Koutammakou

Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba is a cultural landscape designated in 2004 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Togo. The area features traditional mud tower-houses which remain the preferred style of living. The traditional mud houses are known as a national symbol of Togo.

Fort Nassau

Fort Nassau, near Moree, Ghana, was the first fort that the Dutch established on what would become the Dutch Gold Coast.From 1598 onward, Dutch merchants traded on the Gold Coast of Africa.

Ouidah Museum of History

The Ouidah Museum of History is an historical museum in Ouidah, Benin.Official site

Mount Afadja

Mount Afadja, known as Afadjato to the Ewe people of Ghana and Togo, is the highest mountain in Ghana. The summit is located in the Volta Region, near the border with Togo, close to the villages of Liati Wote and Gbledi Gbogame in the Afadjato South District and Hohoe Municipality, respectively.

Fort William

Fort William is a fort in Anomabu, Central Region, Ghana, originally known as Fort Anomabo and renamed Fort William in the nineteenth century by its then-commander, Brodie Cruickshank, who added one storey to the main building in the days of King William IV.

Fort Amsterdam

Fort Amsterdam, a World Heritage Site is a former slave fort in Kormantin, Central region, Ghana. It was built by the English between 1638 and 1645 as Fort Cormantin or Fort Courmantyne, and was captured by admiral Michiel de Ruyter of the Dutch West India Company in 1665, in retaliation for the cap…