West African

**Semantic type:** Population Group

**Definition:** Denotes a person whose ancestry is in any of the countries of the western part of the African continent: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.