Kévé

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

Kévé
Keye
Town
Kévé is located in Togo
Kévé
Kévé
Location in Togo
Coordinates: 6.42781°N 0.924482°E / 6.42781; 0.924482
Population
  Estimate 
(2009)
12,000
Area code337[2]

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. The cultural celebration of this region is Avezan or Aveza. They plant oil palms in their region cause they produce red oil and palm wine.

References

  1. "TELEPHONIE RURALE AU TOGO". Itu.int. Retrieved 2015-06-20.
  2. 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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