Aného

Beach of Aného

Aného is a town of 25,000 people (2010) in southeastern Togo on the Gulf of Guinea near the border of Benin. Aného is an old German colonial town, and a centre of voodoo along the West African pilgrimage route Voodoo Trail, which connects Lomé with Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.

Understand

Aného owes its charm to the many buildings characteristic of the architecture of the German era.

The natives of Aného are the Guin and the Mina.

The town's main industries are farming and fishing, while it is still a centre for Voodoo.

Get in

It is 45 km east of the capital Lomé.

See

Notable buildings include Aneho Protestant Church (built in 1895) and Aneho Peter and Paul Church, cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aného, dating from 1898.

In the Adido district there is an old German cemetery with very well-preserved graves, the inscriptions of which are easy to read and tell a piece of colonial history.

Also worth seeing is a small museum, which is equipped with pictures and objects from the German colonial era.