An engraved map of Dahomey and its environs, from the 1793 The History of Dahomey by slave trader and historian Archibald Dalzel. The Stapleton Collection / Bridgeman Images In West Africa ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 28 July 2023 Once home to several pre-colonial empires, the landlocked, arid West African country of Mali is one of the largest on the ...

Francophone West Africa is a major market for Nigeria's industrial products, especially plastics. Mali has a population of about 22.59 million as at 2022. Burkina Faso had 22.67 million, just ...

“Our possession in the West Coast is possibly one of all our colonies that has before it the great future and deserves the whole sympathy and attention of the empire,” he wrote to the colonial office ...