My Culture,

    

I am from Togo. It is a small country located in the west side of Africa. Togo is limited to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, to the north by Burkina-Faso, to the east by Benin, and to the west by Ghana. I am from the south of Togo, and my village name is Agbanakin. Although I was born in Lome the capital of Togo my parents taught me some do of my culture. As it is define culture is about what are your values and beliefs. However, my parents taught me the value of education in the society because without education, it is hard to succeed in life.

    My country is a mix of religion, and dominant one is the Christianity. The rest of religion are Muslim and Animist. In my village Agbanakin, people have all kind of “gods” in which they believe in. If i remember well each year they have festival call “Zangbeto zan”, its means voodoo mask festival where the neighbor villages came with their Zangbeto. In Aneho-Glidji the celebrate festival of stone named “Ekpessosso” where one of the leader of voodoo go into sacred forest and pick up one stone from there, and if the stone is red that’s mean there will be no rain, in case it is white there will be rain where they will have good harvest year. In Kara it is located in the north side of Togo, we have one festival called “Evala”, and it is festival of wrestler.

   Now as we come to the food, we have all kind of foods but national foods are “Akoume” and “Fufu”. Akoume is made of maize floor and we eat it with all kind of soup but my favorite soup with that is “Ademe dessi” called jutes leaves. Fufu is made of yam which is crushed.

  In conclusion, I really love my country culture. It is way different than the western culture. We have all kind of beliefs, all kind of foods, and kind of wearing.