Gulf of Guinea

Aného, Togo 📍 - a #church in the historic colonial center of #aneho. originally called "little popo" and once housing a bustling portuguese slave market, the town became german togoland`s first capital city in the 1880s 🇹🇬 ...

Koutammakou, Togo 📍 - close up view of my #sketch of a typical fortified house in the #tamberma valley region of northern #togo 🇬🇭 ...

Koutammakou, Togo 📍 - another view of my favorite #tamberma `castle` house in the #unesco-listed #koutammakou region of northern #togo 🇹🇬 ...

Koutammakou, Togo 📍 - my #sketch of a typical #tamberma house in the #koutammakou region (land of the batammariba) of northern #togo.  the valley and its unique #architecture of fortified mud tower houses was listed as a #unesco world heritage site in 2004 🇬🇭 ...

Agbodrafo, Togo 📍 - #masks for sale at a small shop outside the old slave house in the town of #agbodrafo, just half an hour east of lomé 🇹🇬 ...

Koutammakou, Togo 📍 -  a #beautiful, towering #baobab #tree in the #tamberma valley, with a trunk so huge, i was told that ancestors of the #batammariba people lived inside of it!  believe it or not, i somehow squeezed through that narrow hole in the tree and saw inside the old #treehouse for myself! 😜 🇹🇬 ...

Yaoundé, Cameroon 📍 - the beautiful, spiral #reunification #monument in #cameroon`s cool capital, #yaoundé, with a powerful #sculpture representing the strength of family and fatherhood in the foreground.  the two-toned spiral represents the union of the french and british cameroons into one united republic, proclaiming independence in 1972 🇨🇲 ...

Lomé, Togo 📍 - the beautiful palm-lined beachfront #boulevard du mono, running along the entire length of #togo`s capital of #lomé on the gulf of guinea 🇹🇬 ...

Lomé, Togo 📍 - the "sacré-coeur" of #togo - #lomé`s elegant #cathedral of the sacred heart located in the busy central market area was built by the germans in just one year and completed in 1902 🇹🇬 ...

Douala, Cameroon 📍 - the old german colonial post office building in #douala.  the #city was known as "kamerunstadt" and capital of german #kamerun until 1902.  under the french rule, it was the capital of #cameroun from 1940 until 1946.  the capital was moved to yaoundé in 1960 when #cameroon became an independent nation. 🇨🇲 ...