West_Africans_in_the_United_States
West Africans in the United States
United States residents or citizens of recent West African descent and heritage
West Africans in the United States are Americans with ancestry from West Africa. They include:
- Beninese Americans
- Burkinabé Americans
- Cape Verdean Americans
- Chadian Americans
- Gambian Americans
- Ghanaian Americans
- Guinean Americans
- Guinea-Bissauan Americans
- Ivorian Americans
- Liberian Americans
- Malian Americans
- Mauritanian Americans
- Nigerien Americans
- Nigerian Americans
- Senegalese Americans
- Sierra Leonean Americans
- Togolese Americans
In addition, they include a majority of African-American people, whose ancestors were sourced largely from West African states via the Atlantic slave trade.