DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2022.v08i07.002

Pages: 97-109

The main focus of this paper deals with the triple colonial confusions in the Togoland with principal actors and agents from Germany, France and Britain spanning from the mid-19th to mid-20th Centuries. The activities of the Western diplomatic agents totaled 58 in different portfolios within 113 years from 1847 to 1960. The first period from 1847 to 1883 was not having any ranking agents but scattered commercial men and explorers by the Germans and other Europeans before the German final claimed. The second started from the Berlin Colonial Conference (BCC) of November 1884 - February 1885 with effective colonization of 1884-1914 by the Germans witnessed 15 agents of 3Es with different strategies of torturing the Togolese for hegemony. The third worst period of confusion occurred between 1914 and 1960 witnessed two different set of colonial inconsistencies following the partitioned of German Togoland into two distinctive British Togoland with one-third of the entire territory placed under 18 agents whose portion was set into total confusion by gaining independence in a foreign land of the Gold Coast which became Ghana in 1957 from the British as the first black African country. The last phase of hegemonic confusion was in the French Togoland with two- third of the entire territory which was placed under the domination of 25 agents but finally gained independence in 1960 as Togo which can be appreciable than what the British negligence of indirect rule and distance administration of their Togoland as sub-set of her Gold Coast as part of the population got the same frustration that happened in Northern British Cameroons. The outcome of the plebiscite again caused the loss Cameroon territory and population to a foreign neighbour when Cameroonians of that territory voted in favour of integrating with the Federal Republic of Nigeria instead of reunification with the former French Cameroon which became Republic of Cameroon in 1960.All those colonial confusions were due to