Kévé

Kévé
Keye
Town
Kévé is located in Togo
Kévé
Kévé
Location in Togo
Coordinates: 6°25′40″N 0°55′28″E / 6.42781°N 0.924482°E / 6.42781; 0.924482
Population
[1]
 • Estimate 
(2009)
12,000
Area code337[2]

Kévé (also Keye) is a town and canton with 12,000 residents[1] in southwest Togo.

Between 1928 and 1930, the chief of Keve was arrested by French officials for resisting the French regime.[3] As of 1933, Aleke was chief of the town.[4] The town Keve is located by 50 km from Lome.[citation needed] The cultural celebration of this region is Avezan or Aveza.[citation needed] They plant oil palms in their region cause they produce red oil and palm wine.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "TELEPHONIE RURALE AU TOGO". Itu.int. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  2. ^ [1] Archived October 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Lawrance, Benjamin Nicholas (2007). Locality, Mobility, and "nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland ... - Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance. ISBN 9781580462648. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  4. ^ Lawrance, Benjamin Nicholas (2007). Locality, Mobility, and "nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland ... - Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance. ISBN 9781580462648. Retrieved 2015-06-20.


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