The Republic of Togo, or "Togo" for short, is located in West Africa, covering an area of 56,800 square kilometers, with a population of 8.3 million and a per capita GDP of only $680, Making it the least developed country in the world.
The name Togo comes from the "Evi language", "more" means "water", "brother" means "shore", and together it means "country by the water".
The legal tender of Togo is the West African franc, and 93 West African francs is about equal to 1 yuan.
Togo is not the same as other African countries we know, its topography is mostly hills and valleys, the south is a plain, belongs to the tropical rainforest climate, the coast has swamps, and the north is a savannah climate.
Togo's main mineral resource is phosphate, and in the African countries to the south of the Sahara, Togo is the third largest producer, with proven reserves of 260 million tons of high-quality minerals.
Togo has five major economic zones, no administrative structure, the country has 30 provinces and 4 special districts, the capital is in Lomé, bordering the land of neighboring countries, is relatively rare, covers an area of 90 square kilometers, the population of 1.57 million, in the southwest of Togo.
The average life expectancy in Togo is 62 years and the literacy rate is around 65 per cent.
Togo's prices are more friendly, beef 15 yuan per kilogram, donkey meat 10 yuan per kilogram, crab ten yuan three, bananas, mangoes, papayas do not have money, basically are home-grown.
The official languages of Togo are French, Kabria and Evi, and 70 per cent of the local population is fetishistic and 20 per cent Is Christian.
Every year in July, the locals will hold a coming-of-age ceremony for men and women over the age of 18 in the tribe, and the men's coming-of-age ceremony is the Wrestling Festival, the Wrestling Festival, which everyone can visit. The coming-of-age ceremony for women is the Festival of Maturity, the festival of "sitting on the Holy Stone" for women who are not yet married, and the Festival of Maturity is not allowed to be visited by men of the tribe and people outside the tribe.
Wrestling competitions have a strict competition system, after strict selection by villages, townships and counties, the top four teams can participate in the national finals, and at the time of the finals, men, women and children will travel in full costume.
The cost of divorce in Togo is a bit special, the feelings come to an end, the couple needs to divorce, the two go to the marriage management department together, the manager will shave the hair of both parties in half, shave off the hair, the two sides exchange, a bit like our "cut off the love thread without concern".
There are many tribes in Togo, and the wedding customs of each tribe are different, there is "marriage snatching", that is, the groom and relatives and friends go to the bride's house in the middle of the night, pick up and run; There are also girls who love freely and choose the man they like to marry, provided that they get the consent of their parents.
Before marriage, the bridegroom-to-be has to work in the woman's home, and it is voluntary labor, after the grain is harvested, 3 baskets of corn are sent to the woman's family, and in the year of marriage, the groom must bring 21 baskets of corn to the woman, and after the grain is delivered, he can get married.