Ewe
Total population
Regions with significant populations	Ghana, Togo, Benin
Language	Ewe
Religion	traditional beliefs, Christianity, Voodoo

The Ewe people are a people of southern Ghana, Togo and Benin. They speak the Ewe language and are related to other speakers of Gbe languages as the Fon and the Aja of Togo and Benin. They have come to their present territory from the east; their original homeland is traced to Oyo in western Nigeria. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Ewe_people. ... Ewe is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana and Togo by approximately three million people (Capo 1991). ... This article is becoming very long. ... See Vodou, also Voodoo (disambiguation). ... Ewe is a Kwa language spoken in Ghana and Togo by approximately three million people (Capo 1991). ... The Gbe languages (pronounced ) form a cluster of about 20 related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria. ... Fon is a major West African ethnic and linguistic group in the country of Benin or Dahomey, and southwest Nigeria, made up of more than 2,000,000 people. ... The Aja are a group of people now living in what is now Benin and what used to be Dahomey. ...

The Ewe are essentially a patrilineal people, the founder of a community became the chief and was usually succeeded by his paternal relatives. Ewe religion is organized around a creator deity, Mawu. Patrilineality is a system in which one belongs to ones fathers lineage; it generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well. ... In Dahomey mythology, Mahu (alternately: Mawu) is a creator goddess, associated with the sun and moon. ...