Kamina Funkstation, Togo

Kamina Funkstation was a large wireless transmitter in the German-occupied colony of Togoland (now Togo) in West Africa.

The wireless station was built by Telefunken near the village of Kamina, in Togoland, where the nearest large settlement was Atakpamé about 5 km (3.1 mi) away.

[9] At the outbreak of the First World War, the station repaid its construction costs several fold by promptly informing all German merchant ships in the South Atlantic and Caribbean to visit neutral ports.

[10] It also undertook military and intelligence work but it transpired that the German colonial forces had no plan in place for its organised defence.

The station was destroyed on night of August 24th to 25th, 1914 by the operators to prevent it from coming under British and French control.