For many of the almost 320 Germans who lived in the Togoland colony, the name of the former capital of the protected area (until 1898) was probably as natural as the name of their city for the inhabitants of Pforzheim.

Only the others find this funny.

Nonetheless, pressure was soon followed to change the name of the port city, originally called Popovi by the Portuguese, then Pétit Popo by the French. This initiative came from missionaries who found Little Popo not only embarrassing, but above all as "indecent".