West Africa is a region generally considered to include:

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberia
• Mali
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

Chad and Mauritania are sometimes considered a part of West Africa.

 [ send green star]

Some helpful maps...

http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/maps.html

 [ send green star]

 [ accepted]

I use to have a pen friend from The Gambia, His name was Mohamed Debassi. (i think i remember the spelling ok).  i lost track of him when i moved and lost his address.

I also met a nice man here from Siera Leone.. 

I was wanting to know if there is a problem of kidnapping and being sold into slavery in West Africa.  Ive just finished reading a book about a young girl who was kidnapped at age 11 or 12 from Nuba mountains in Sudan.  she only obtained her freedon in 2000.  How much of a problem is this in West Africa if at all.

colleen

 [ send green star]

 [ accepted]

Thank you very much for a wonderful information.

Love, light and peace,

NRDanielle

 [ send green star]

 [ accepted]