RC 261025Power FMLerato Mvelase
Sunday, 25 October 2026
Sunday's Power Beats mixed African music with a Roots, Rhythm and Life feature on Togo, covering its health achievement, flag, colonial history and culture, plus a run-through of African countries that changed their names.
- 23:00
Togo became the first country in the world recognised by the WHO for eliminating four neglected tropical diseases, including Guinea worm disease and sleeping sickness.
- 23:01
Togo's flag has five horizontal stripes, with green for agriculture and hope, yellow for mineral wealth and unity, and a red square with a white star for independence martyrs and peace.
- 22:04
Germany set up a protectorate over Togoland in 1884, the League of Nations split it between Britain and France in 1922, and French Togoland gained independence on 27 April 1960.
- 23:24
Several African countries have changed their names since independence, including Benin, formerly Dahomey, Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, and Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta.