jun 9, 1946 - All Ewe Conference

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9-12.05.1946 in Accra
Organization set up in the Gold Coast on June 9, 1946 to campaign for the unification of all segments of the Ewe population under British tutelage. A merger of several previous groups, including the Ewe Unionist Association of Daniel A. Chapman, who was elected Secretary General of the All-Ewe Conference, the organization claiming to represent all Ewe clanshad only moderate support in French Togoland. There its most prominent members were the Brazilian Augustino De Souza and some twenty customary chiefs. Sylvanus Olympio, the political leader of French Togo's Ewe, was campaigning for his own Comité de l'Unité Togolaise party and had an ambivalent attitude toward the AEC and its goals. In late 1948 and early 1949 the AEC suffered major splits in its ranks as a result of incipient resentments against the organization's Anlo-Ewe leadership.

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