A plan for free education has been put into action; tuition for primary schools has been forbidden.
[5] There are very few sources on the predominantly oral education in what is now the territory of Togo prior to the colonial period (from the 16th century to 1960).
From the fifteenth century on wards, two historical phenomena occurred that influenced learning and education in the territory of the future Togo: contact with Portuguese merchants and evangelists (by sea) and the gradual colonization by Islam of a hitherto predominantly Mandingo society (by inland).
In 1946, the country came under the international supervision of the United Nations, managed by France (the victory over the German forces following the First World War).
Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Éducation au Togo; see its history for attribution.