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French West Africa ( French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali ), French Guinea (now Guinea ), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso ), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger. The federation existed from 1895 until 1958.
e. A man from Labé, Guinea, speaking Pular and West African French. African French ( French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in 2023 or 51% of the French-speaking population of the world [6] [7] [8] spread across 34 countries and territories.
List of countries where French is the only official language: Benin. Congo. Democratic Republic of Congo. Ivory Coast. France ( Metropolitan & Overseas France) Gabon. Guinea. Monaco.
French North Africa. French Algeria (1830–1962) Protectorate of Tunisia (1881–1956) Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956) French West Africa. Liberia Liberia Boundary Treaty was signed; Guinea or French Guinea (1847–1958) Ivory Coast (1843–1960) Dahomey or French Dahomey (now Benin) (1883–1960) Independent of Dahomey, under French ...
This will only apply to countries belonging to the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) which includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo, and not to member states of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC from its French appellation), which use the Central African ...
Benin covers an area of 114,763 km 2 (44,310 sq mi), [4] and its population in 2021 was estimated to be approximately 13 million. [13] [14] It is a small, tropical country. It is one of the least developed, with an economy heavily dependent on agriculture, and is an exporter of palm oil and cotton.
In World War II, French West Africa ( Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was not a major scene of major fighting. Only one large-scale action took place there: the Battle of Dakar (23–25 September 1940). The region remained under the control of Vichy France after the fall of France (25 June 1940) and until the Allied invasion of North ...
French West Africa. Ivory Coast (1843–1960) Dahomey or French Dahomey (now Benin) (1883–1960) Independent of Dahomey, under French protectorate in 1889. Porto-Novo (protectorate) (1863–1865, 1882) Cotonou (protectorate) (1868)