West Africans in the United States

West Africans in the United States are Americans with ancestry from West Africa. They include:

• Beninese Americans
• Burkinabé Americans
• Cape Verdean Americans
• Gambian Americans
• Ghanaian Americans
• Guinean Americans
• Guinea-Bissauan Americans
• Ivorian Americans
• Liberian Americans
• Malian Americans
• Mauritanian Americans
• Nigerien Americans
• Nigerian Americans
  • Igbo Americans
  • Yoruba 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.

See also[]

• West Africa