How to get a Nicaragua visa from Togo

Nicaragua can be surprisingly safe sometimes even for solo travellers. It's been safe in the past and (remember) still has a lower crime rate than its neighbours.

The country's name is derived from Nicarao, chief of the indigenous tribe that lived around present day Lake Nicaragua during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Nicaragua has a unique history in that it was the only country in Latin America to be colonized by both the Spanish and the British.

The remainder 9% of Nicaragua’s population is black, and mainly reside on the country's sparsely populated Caribbean (or Atlantic) coast. The black population is mostly of West Indian (Antillean) origin, the descendants of indentured laborers brought mostly from Jamaica when the region was a British protectorate.

Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America and the second poorest in the Western Hemisphere, has widespread underemployment and poverty. GDP growth of 4.5% in 2017 was insufficient to make a significant difference.

Finally, following independence, slavery was abolished by the decree of the Constituent Assembly of April 17, 1824. However, to early 19th century arrived people who were enslaved from Jamaica to the Nicaragua Caribbean coasts, when the region was a British protectorate. They became "Black creoles".