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Also known as: West Africa
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John D. Fage
Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Birmingham, England; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1979–84; Vice-Principal, 1981–84. Author of A History of Africa and others.
John D. Fage,
T.C. McCaskie
Senior Research Fellow, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham; Professor of African History, SOAS University of London.
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western Africa, region of the western African continent comprising the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Western Africa is a term used in the Encyclopædia Britannica to designate a geographic region within the continent of Africa. The term West Africa is also often used to refer to this part of the continent. As conventionally understood, however, West Africa is primarily a political and economic designation and comprises all the areas considered here except Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, and ...(100 of 31209 words)

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