To Go To Togo | 72.90

When we learned that we were only about 5 kilometers from the country of Togo, we just had to go... to Togo! In this photo, we had passed the Ghana border station and had not reached the Togo border station. Even though we were officially in Togo already, we pretended that the line on this bridge was the official border, so we could do the "one foot in Ghana, one foot in Togo" photo that we wanted. (The bridge is actually broken and does not reach to the other side of the river.)

This area used to be one continuous region before the Europeans came and drew a line across the land, one side being Ghana (with English as official language) and one side being Togo (with French as official language). Many people still have relatives living on the other side of the border, and they simply walk across when they visit those relatives. This brings up an interesting question: If this particular border seems highly arbitrary, how about all the other borders between countries? Could some of them also be more psychological than meaningful?