Ewe - Encyclopedia

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

EWE, a group of Negro peoples of the Slave Coast, West Africa. By the natives their country is called Ewe-me, "Land of the Ewe." The Ewe family forms five linguistic groups: the Anlo or Anglawa on the Gold Coast frontier, the Krepi of Anfueh speech, the Jeji, the Dahomeyans and the Mahi.

See further Dahomey, and A. B. Ellis, The Eke-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast.. . (London, 1890).