The Ewe People Of Ghana And Togo

The Ewe are an ethnolinguistic people living mainly in southeastern Ghana, southern Togo, and also southern Benin; Britannica frames Ewe unity less as a centralized political state than as a shared language, origin traditions, lineage structures, and religious/cultural practices. Musically, the first thing to grasp is that Ewe tradition is not “music” in the narrow concert-hall sense. It is dance-drumming-song as one social body. Smithsonian Folkways notes that among Ewe communities in southeast Ghana