West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. a 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, in addition to Togo as living as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The population of West Africa is estimated at approximately 381 million people as of 2018, and at 381,981,000 as of 2017, of which 189,672,000 are female and 192,309,000 male. The region is demographically and economically one of the fastest growing on the African continent.It is know that West Africa has 30 percentage out of the population in Africa.
Early history in West Africa planned a number of prominent regional powers, that dominated different parts of both the coast and internal trade networks, such as the Mali and Gao Empires. West Africa sat the intersection of trade routes between Arab-dominated North Africa and specialized goods from further south on the continent, including gold, advanced iron-working, and products like ivory. After European exploration encountered a rich local economies and kingdoms, the European slave trade exploited previous slave systems to render labor for colonies in the Americas. After the end of the slave trade in the early 19th century, Europeans, especially France and Britain, continued to exploit the region through colonial relationships—exporting a number of extractive goods, including labor intensive agricultural crops like cocoa and coffee, forestry products like tropical timber, and minerals like gold. Since independence, many of the West African countries, like Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal, play important roles in the regional and global economies.
West Africa has a rich ecology, with strong biodiversity and several distinct regions. The climate and ecology are heavily influenced by the dry Sahara to the North and East, which allows dry winds during the Harmattan, and the west and humid climate to the south and of the Atlantic which permits seasonal monsoons. This mix of ecologies, intend that there is both biodiversity-rich tropical forest, and drylands that assist a number of rare or endangered fauna, such(a) as pangolin, rhinoceros and elephant. Because of the pressure for economic development, many of these ecologies are threatened by processes like deforestation, biodiversity loss, overfishing, pollution from mining, plastic and other economic processes, and the extreme redesign that will a object that is caused or presented by something else from climate change in West Africa.
West Africa culture attribute songs, dance, proverbs, folk tales and masks.
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