West Africa

     Western Africa (as the UN sees it) West Africa or Western Africa is the western part of Africa. According to the United Nations (UN), West Africa has seventeen countries:

Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana

Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania

Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone West Africa Media Representations of West African hunter-gatherers from the Dahomey region of Benin Round Head figure wearing a Barbary sheep-styled mask West African sites with archaeobotanical remains from third to first millennium cal bc. The arrows indicate directions of pearl millet diffusion into sub-Saharan West Africa. Mansa Musa depicted holding a gold nugget from a 1395 map of Africa and Europe 13th-century Africa – map of the main trade routes and states, kingdoms and empires West Africa c. 1875 French in West Africa c. 1913 A rhinoceros in Bandia Nature Reserve, Senegal