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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).
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]
The following is an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme for Africa, used by the United Nations and maintained by the UNSD department for statistical purposes. [ 1 ]
A 1729 map titled: "NEGROLAND and GUINEA, with the European settlements. Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark & c. By H. Moll Geographer". Negroland, Nigrita, [1] or Nigritia, [2] is an archaic term in European mapping, referring to Europeans' descriptions of West Africa as an area populated with negroes.
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 Nations Cup returned in 2002 as the WAFU Nations Cup, however, officially it was not considered simply as a continuation of the old tournament, and therefore it is a new tournament. The 2002 edition was short-lived after violence broke out in Ivory Coast. [2] Two games of the tournament had been played when it was cancelled.
Africa. North Africa; West Africa; partially within the Sahara Desert; Time zone: Coordinated Universal Time UTC+00; Extreme points of Mali High: Hombori Tondo 1,155 m (3,789 ft) Low: Senegal River 23 m (75 ft) Land boundaries: 7,243 km Mauritania 2,237 km Algeria 1,376 km Burkina Faso 1,000 km Guinea 858 km Niger 821 km Cote d'Ivoire 532 km
In the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s the Europeans started to colonise the inland of West Africa, they had previously mostly controlled trading ports along the coasts and rivers. Following World War II, campaigns for independence sprung up across West Africa, most notably in Ghana under the Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972). After a ...