West Africa West Africa West Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. West Africa has been defined as including 17 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, the island nation of Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, the islands of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. The population of West Africa is estimated at about /1e6 round 0 million people as of . Studies of human mitochondrial DNA suggest that all humans share common ancestors from Africa, originated in the southwestern regions near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola at the
Portuguese colonial exhibition and Príncipe, and Timor (Portuguese Timor). There were reproductions of villages from different colonies and of the Padrãos of Dighton and Yellala, along with a zoo, restaurants a theatre, a cinema which showed "'The Dawn Patrol" and an amusement park. It ran from 16 June to 30 Septemberand by the time it had closed there had been 1.5 million visitors. 'Portugal is Not a Small Country' map used to show how big Portuguese colonies were Portuguese colonial exhibition The Portuguese colonial exhibition was a world's fair held in Porto, Portugal in 1934 to display achievements of Portugal's colonies in Africa