Q 01/05

Togo's capital, Lomé, sits on the coast of which gulf?

A) The Gulf of Aden

B) The Gulf of Sidra

C) The Gulf of Guinea

D) The Gulf of Suez

Answer · why

C) The Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea gave Togo no natural harbour, so a deep-water port was built at Lomé in the 1960s. It now handles cargo for landlocked countries fa...

Q 02/05

Togo is bordered by Ghana to the west and which country to the east?

A) Nigeria

B) Ivory Coast

C) Benin

D) Burkina Faso

Answer · why

C) Benin

Benin and Togo share more than a border: in the 1980s they jointly built a hydroelectric dam that both countries own, which cut Togo's reliance on imp...

Q 03/05

What is the official language of Togo?

A) Portuguese

B) French

C) English

D) Spanish

Answer · why

B) French

French arrived late: the territory was a German colony until British and French troops seized it in 1914, and France was then handed the larger, easte...

Q 04/05

The 1975 Lomé Convention, signed in Togo's capital, gave trade preferences to Africa, the Caribbean and which other region?

A) South Asia

B) The Pacific

C) The Middle East

D) South-East Asia

Answer · why

B) The Pacific

The Pacific islands signed alongside African and Caribbean states, 46 countries in all. That June the same 46 formed a bloc of their own, the ACP Grou...

Q 05/05

Who became independent Togo's first president?

A) Sylvanus Olympio

B) Nicolas Grunitzky

C) Kwame Nkrumah

D) Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Answer · why

A) Sylvanus Olympio

Sylvanus Olympio won the 1958 election that opened the way to independence, but he ruled for under three years: soldiers discharged from the colonial ...