Ghana’s Attempt to Control Togo: The Untold Story of Sylvanus Olympio (Part 1)
Ghana’s Attempt to Control Togo: The Untold Story of Sylvanus Olympio (Part 1)
During his interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on March 25, 1962, Sylvanus Olympio, the first President of Togo, discussed several key topics. Below is a summary of the main points:
1. Unity of the Ewe People
Olympio addressed the issue of the Ewe people, who were divided between Togo and Ghana due to colonial boundaries.
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Olympio was a great visionary who didn't sell his country to another like how British Cameroonian politicians sold their country to French Cameroon. Togolese should be proud of this man.
Revisionist nonsense.
Here are the names of people look so dangerous to white people in 1950 s
Olympio, Patrick lumbar, Felix Roland etc even Thomas sankara who was killed in 1987 is very dangerous than Nkruma.
Volta region will definitely come back to Togo when change of power come in Togo. The same scenario happened in cameroune. Rest well a man who white people afraid of.
I think Sylvanus Olympio was a good ally to Nkrumah. They didn’t want that therefore had him removed. He was somewhat Nkrumah’s mole in the so called Monrovia group.
Olympio was no French puppet. He is a mind of his own and so was hated and assassinated by the French commandant Georges Matreit in collaboration with Uncle Sam inside the U.S embassy in Lomé.
The Eweland
Volta =Ghana +Togo
Nkrumah simply was fighting for the unity and total liberation of the African continent! Ironically many Togolese people stay in Ghana currently and many Ghanaians stay in Togo as well with great train networks, roads these two countries will become one any way and the same can be said about Ivory Coast, burkina, Nigeria, Guinea etc
Olympio was born in Kpando in Ghana. In Ghana we have a lot prominent persons who are Togolese by decent like Francis Xavier Sosu esq Mp for Madina. I myself have such trait…❤
Nkrumah wanted to control Olympio not realizing that Olympio was well educated like he Nkrumah.
I wish Ghana and Togo unite😢
God will always bless you where you are. Our great president.
The problem of Africa is the separation of Ethnic groups into country contexts. We had Kingdoms and Empires as Family groups and have a hanging balance of looming doom with tribalism and exploitation with the country lines. I believe in United Africa, with strict respect to the sovereignty of Indigenous people contributing their strengths and complimenting each others weaknesses.
Up to date some towns and villages behind the border of Ghana is considered Ghanaian land on paper but are denied everything Ghanaian. Togo says is Ghanaian and Ghana says is Togoland. The division is only left to las this long because of the division of our Chiefs as Eweland.
Faut pas oublier que le Togo c une partie du Ghana et Bénin tout est l'œuvre des colonialistes déstabilisateurs tout ça disparaîtra comme la Gambie et Sénégal bravoooooo 👍👍👍 l'AES
Ghana 🇬🇭 and Togo 🇹🇬 share the same cultural identity. Togo under Sylvanus Olympio wouldn’t been better place than it is now he had a dream and great vision for Togo
Stop telling us liyer.
He wanted to divise Togo. And this is very bad, what ever you said.
SylvanusOlympio empêche l'oppositionde présenter des candidats aux élections. Il fait adopter une nouvelle Constitution et il est élu président de la République avec des pouvoirs élargis. Le régime parlementaire est aboli, bientôt les partis politiques sont interdits.🤡
How Togolese hope has been dashed…
These members of the Monrovia group are the ones who failed Africa with their slow ideas.
My country my blood 🙏
Hmmmm so èwe people are really Togoless people , ❤❤❤ we togoless know that togo and Ghana are same country ❤❤
Mon président bien aimée.
The Evhe People on both sides of the boder should organize and break down those borders.
Nigeria is the problem to Africa's unity because he undermined Our unity.
Viv le President Sylvanus Olympic. One of the Great man and blessings of Africa
S. Olympio is actually a Ghanaian through his dressing and also some Ghanaians 🇬🇭 who are Akans from Denkyira Kingdom are in the Northern side of Togo by name Sansane Mango, Chanaka, konkombu.. the same people are in Cote d'lvoire and Benin
Un visionnaire assassiné par des lâches
S. Olympio was actually facing the unfortunate drama orchestrated by the colonial masters on the said Togoland territory just to satisfy their will to deal with Germany… Psychologically , his speech revealed that he wanted to maintain the intergrity of Togoland as it used to be,not divided; while in the other hand K.Nkruma wanted to incorporate the remaining part of Togoland wich according to the interview, it's a thread.
Now the challenge before
S.Olympio was how could he surrender the whole Togo to Ghana as the 7th region after many years of trials and battle for independence.
A well travelled 🧳 person with wide experience know many things and talks sense
The sad news is that, when Olympio was overthrown just like Nkrumah, he and his family came to seek refuge in Ghana. What a shame!!