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BeingAfrican is a platform that strives to preserve African cultures, traditions, and languages. It is a meeting place where African cultures are explained within scope. 

In recent decades, the emergence of large African diaspora communities within Africa itself, Europe, America, and elsewhere has resulted in the loss of traditional knowledge of African cultures. At the same time, the westernization of African countries has posed the same at home. Our platform is an attempt to preserve many of our centuries-old customs and traditions.

At BeingAfrican we understand that preservation of culture and protocols is everyone’s responsibility (parents and children) but mainly it lies with the elders. 

  • Learn about you, your people, and why you should be proudly Togolese

  • Know who you married-cross cultural marriages

  • Understand the people of the country you intend to visit-Hello tourists!

  • Learn the language-Basic language exposure. Say something in Gur, Kwa..

  • Share your rich Togolese culture and language

 

Be present in appreciating the Togolese in you and Togoleses around you. Understand Togolese marriage practices, clans and totems, pregnancy traditions, manners and protocols, dining and hosting, music, art and dance, death and funerals.

 

As a Togolese, you have a culture, and you have a language!

 

TOGO AT A GLANCE

           Independence: 27 April 1960

           Population:8 million

          Area: 57 000 square kilometres 

       Languages: 

  •  Ewe

  • French

  • Gbe

  • Gur

  • Kwa

  • Kabiye

  • Talensi

  • Wasa

  • African French

  • Aguna

  • Aja

  • Ngangam

  • Ntcham

  • Tammari

  • Tem

 

Ethnic groups

99% Ewe, Kabye, Tem, Gourma, and 33 other African groups

1% European, Indian & Syro-Lebanese

 

 

 Where is Togo on the continent of Africa?

Togo is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north.