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Detail showing the Bight of Biafra from a map by Herman Moll, 1729, showing "NEGROLAND and GUINEA. With the European Settlements, Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark etc. Date: 1729: Source: Atlas Minor, originally published in 1727." 20.1 X 27 cm. Published in London. The map shows the area from the Tropic of Cancer to Cameroon.
West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).
Name Year Colonial power Morocco: 1912 France [1]: Libya: 1911 Italy [2]: Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3]: Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 ...
The West Region (French: Région de l'Ouest) is 14,000 km 2 of territory located in the central-western portion of the Republic of Cameroon.It borders the Northwest Region to the northwest, the Adamawa Region to the northeast, the Centre Region to the southeast, the Littoral Region to the southwest, and the Southwest Region to the west.
The West African Games (French: Jeux d'Afrique de l'Ouest) was an international multi-sport event between the nations of West Africa, which was held in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977. Opened on 27 August by Nigeria's head of state, Olusegun Obasanjo, ten countries took part in the eight-day competition. [1] A total of eleven sports were contested. [2]
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The West African University Games (French: Jeux Universitaires Ouest Africains), also known as the ECOWAS Students Games, is a multi-sport event between student-athletes from West African universities. [1] The competition was first held in 1965 in Ibadan, Nigeria, and has been held on a roughly once ever four to six years since 1989. [2]
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