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Title:Afro-Brazilians in Togo: The Case of the Olympio Family, 1882-1945
Author:Amos, Alcione M.ISNI
Year:2001
Periodical:Cahiers d'études africaines
Volume:41
Issue:162
Pages:293-314
Language:English
Geographic term:Togo
Subjects:Afro-Brazilians
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.88
Abstract:Through the saga-like story of one of Togo's most prominent families, the Olympio's, this article explores the history of the Afro-Brazilian community in Togo and particularly in Lomé, between 1882, just before the beginning of the German colonization, and 1945. It begins with the patriarch, Francisco Olympio Silva (born in Salvador, Bahia, in 1833), who arrived in Africa in 1850 and made a career in the slave-trading business, and ends with the emergence of his grandson Sylvanus Epiphanio Kwami Olympio (born in 1902) as a liberation leader after 1945. Sylvanus would be at the helm of the first Togolese government after independence from France was obtained in 1960. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French.
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