Aflao

Aflao is a border town in the Ketu South District of the Volta Region of Ghana, standing on the frontier with Togo. During the Atlantic slave trade the town grew under pressure from the Anlo to the west and Little Popo, now Aneho in Togo, to the east, and it passed from Danish to British hands in 1850 once the slave trade ended; the British added Aflao to the Gold Coast in 1879. The border here has seen tension, including a curfew and surveillance during the 1982 and 1983 revolution. The Diamond Cement Ghana factory is located in the town, linked since 2014 by a short rail siding to the port of Lome. A 2012 estimate put the population at 66,546, mostly Ewe people.