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German Administration in Southern Togo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

D. E. K. Amenumey
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Superficially, the nature of German rule in Togo differed from that of the other German colonies. For example, right from the start, it was administered by Imperial officials. It thereby escaped some of the worst abuses of Chartered Company rule. Again because of the peculiar nature fo the country—it was very small, not particularly suitable for European settlement and much of its agricultural land was already under peasant cultivation, to which it was best suited—Togo escaped the large-scale expropriation of the subject peoples' land that was characteristic of German rule elsewhere.

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The Journal of African History , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 1969 , pp. 623 - 639
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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