'Homeland': the Ewe name for the ancestral home, understood in migration narratives and the Hogbetsotso festival to mean Notsie in present-day Togo. Hogbetsotso means 'leaving Hogbe', i.e. the exodus from the ancestral land. Ewe oral tradition, as presented by the Verba Africana project, portrays King Agɔkɔli of Notsie as a tyrant whose oppression prompted the departure.
The Anlo trace their origins to Hogbe, the walled town of Notsie.