Eyadema, G.

...The Kabre people, a representative example of this people, cultivate terraces on the hills, practice highly intensive agriculture, and grow crops such as millet, rice, and yams. Although the country is small, the conflict between the north and the south is deep-rooted, and President Gnassingbe Eyadéma (1935-) is from a northern tribe, which has created strong resentment among the Ewe, a powerful tribe in the south, and the political situation is unstable. During the decline of the slave trade, mixed-race people who returned from Brazil built the town of Anecho on the coast and engaged in slave and cattle trade with the north. ...

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…その代表的なカブレ族Kabreは丘陵地をテラス耕作し，高度な集約農業を行い，ミレット，イネ，ヤムイモなどの作物を栽培している。　小国であるにもかかわらず南北の対立は根深く，エヤデマGnassingbe Eyadéma(1935‐　)大統領が北部の部族出身のため，南部の有力部族であるエウェの反感が強く，政情は不安定である。奴隷交易の衰退期にブラジルから帰還した混血は海岸部にアネショの町を建設し，北部との奴隷や牛の取引に従事した。…

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