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History of Agbozume The people of Agbozume and other Some Ewes were the original people of Keta. Awanyedor and Akaga who were sons of Torgbui Wenya (the founder of Anlo state), left Anloga to establish a fishing cottage in the present location of Keta.The Danes later built a fort (Fort Prinzenstein) in the location for trade. In the year 1794, a Danish officer assassinated the chief (Nukpornku) of Keta.The whole of Keta revolted and Sarpey Agbo, a nephew of the dead chief,ambushed the leader of the Danish post at Agorko near Denu and decapitated him in retaliation. When word reached Keta about the decapitation, the inhabitants of Keta laid siege to the fort. At night some of the Danes escaped to Anloga to inform the Awormefia(the paramount chief)and bribed Anloga people to fight the Ketas. Being kinsmen, Keta and Anloga people conspired to stage a mock battle and share the money offered by the Danes. Unfortunately, the mock battle turned bloody and Keta people were severely defeated.The survivors escaped across the lagoon to Klikor where they were offered land to settle on. A traditional priestess was hired from Benin (Dahomey) to perform purification rituals for the new settlement. She sacrificed a ram and prophesied that two raffia palms would germinate on the two horns of the buried ram. She named the settlement Agbozome (between the ram's horns) in her dialect. Agbozome was corrupted to Agbozume. Note the name should have been Agbodzome in the Anlo dialect. Sarpey Agbo later moved to the coast to build Xedzranawo- now a suburb of Denu. Attempts on his life compelled him to move again to Agbodrafor( Agbo stretched his legs) in Togo where he died.