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  • Title: [Immigration of the Ehoue of Benin into the Mono plain in Togo, the case of eastern Haho].
    Author: Abotchi T.
    Journal: Cah O M; 1995; 48(192):453-75. PubMed ID: 12291974.
    Abstract:
    This work traces the movement since the 19th century of Ehoue migrants from the plateau of Aplahoue in Benin to the eastern Haho area of the plains of Mono in Togo. Immigration of Benin origin has never been taken into account in demographic analysis of the plateau region of Togo. Three broad periods of immigration can be distinguished, the early movements from the mid-19th century to the first World War, when the uncultivated lands of Moyen-Mono were occupied; the colonial period, when the Ehoue were attracted to the eastern Haho partly in order to avoid more onerous conditions in what was then Dahomey; and the current period of massive movement toward the area of eastern Haho. Various theories exist concerning the origins of the Ehoue, who may have migrated into the area as early as the 12th century. The first migrants in the 19th century avoided settlement on the densely forested banks of the River Mono. Conditions were difficult enough elsewhere, with dense vegetation, wild animals, insects and disease. The conditions prompting their departure from the Aplahoue apparently included overpopulation and soil exhaustion, as well as warfare. Most of the large villages in the eastern Haho were founded during the massive movement of the interwar years. Land was freely given to the migrants according to traditional customs. Beginning in the 1950s the Ehoue outnumbered the native population in eastern Haho. The ability to earn cash in cotton cultivation may have been the most important among many factors encouraging migration after independence. Rapid population growth, conflicts over land, deforestation and drying of the climate, and near saturation of available lands are among the problems resulting from this uncontrolled population movement.
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