French West Africa

French West Africa was a supercolony or federation of several separate French colonial territories in Western Africa. Over time, it included:
 * Dahomey (now Benin)
 * French Guinea (now Guinea)
 * French Sudan (now Mali)
 * Ivory Coast
 * Mauritania
 * Niger
 * Senegal
 * French Togoland
 * Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso)
 * the enclaves of Forcados and Badjibo (in Nigeria)



