The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt episode 1.

I was coincidentally teaching myself basic facts about the country of Togo Wednesday night, and then I saw the first episode of this anime today, and was pleasantly surprised that one of the main characters has Tōgo as a given name. His surname is Sakuradaimon.

To explain the post title: Sylvanus Olympio was the leader of Togo’s independence movement. Togo became an independent country in 1960, and Sylvanus Olympio was assassinated in 1963 just as he was trying to get Togo off the CFA franc. This led to many decades of rule of Togo by the fascist comprador Gnassingbé Eyadéma.

At the same time, according to NATOpedia, Sylvanus Olympio apparently had a bit of a falling out with Kwame Nkrumah after both Ghana and Togo had achieved independence, over the issue of the Ewe people’s lands being split between the two new countries. I’m not going to trust NATOpedia to educate me about that issue but it seemed worth mentioning.