What is "amedzofe"

In Ewe oral history, Amedzofe (pronounced ), literally 'origin/home of humanity', is one of the names for Ketu. Ketu, in present-day Benin, was a central place in the history of the Gbe peoples. The Gbe peoples originally were part of the Yoruba Oyo people of Nigeria, but they were pressed westward by a series of wars between the 10th and the 13th century. In Ketu, the ancestors of the Gbe-speaking peoples separated themselves from other refugees and began to establish their own identity.

Amedzofe can refer to the following things:

• Amedzofe, Ghana, the settlement south of Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana
• Amedzofe (history), the origin of humanity in Ewe traditions