Though a travel ban has made things difficult for the Togolese group and its D.C. bandleader, the music remains.

If there were no countries, you would say these are music from the Ewe people or the Kabye or the Mobas. But now that there are countries it's like, O.K., this music is played in Togo and Ghana, but ...

Notsie (Togo), Sept. 8, GNA – Calls for stronger unity among the Ewe people rang out during the 69th Agbogboza Festival in Notsie on Saturday, as chiefs and delegations from Ghana, Togo, Benin, ...