In Lome, sweltering capital of what was once the French Togoland, the French tricolor fluttered to the ground for the last time. Then two strapping Togolese soldiers smartly raised the new yellow-and-green-barred emblem of the free and independent republic of Togo as a French man-of-war in the harbor boomed a 101-gun salute and 20,000 Togolese, shouting "ablodé, ablodé" (freedom), snake-danced through the palm-lined streets behind a blaring brass band and native drummers. Thus last week was born the second of seven new African nations, due to join the world family of nations...
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