Togoland Congress

Togoland Congress Organisation
Leader S. G. Antor
Founded 1951
Dissolved 1957
Merged into United Party
National affiliation Gold Coast
1954 elections 3
1956 elections 2


The Togoland Congress (TCP) was a political party formed in 1951 which had won three seats in the Gold Coast elections of April 1954 and two seats in the July 1956 elections, but did not survive for long afterwards. The Togoland Congress's secondary goal was to campaign for the unification of the Ewe people in British Togoland and French Togoland as a separate Ewe state; however the party yet again failed in the May 1956 UN plebiscite held in British Togoland, which had resulted in the unification of British Togoland and the Gold Coast. [1]

References

  1. Daniel Miles McFarland, Historical Dictionary of Ghana, 1985, p. 173


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