Anloga

Anloga is a town in the Anloga District of the Volta Region in southeastern Ghana, on the east side of the Volta River and just south of the Keta Lagoon. It is recorded as the forty-seventh most populous town in the country, with about 36,000 people, and it is the seat of the Awormefia of the Anlo State, which makes it the traditional, ancestral and spiritual capital of the Anlo Ewe. Local history places the Anlo Ewe in the lagoon country after a migration from Notsie in present-day Togo, and the town became their ritual capital in the seventeenth century. In the late eighteenth century Anloga was drawn into the quarrels between the Danish fort at Keta and its neighbours, and the town and Keta remained rivals for generations afterwards. The name is Ewe and is explained as Big Anlo. Several secondary and technical schools serve the area.