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French West Africa
French West Africa
(,
AOF
) was a
federation
of eight French colonial territories in
Africa
:
Mauritania
,
Senegal
,
French Sudan
(now
Mali
),
French Guinea
,
Ivory Coast
,
Upper Volta
(now
Burkina Faso
),
Dahomey
(now
Benin
) and
Niger
. The capital of the federation was
Dakar
. The federation existed from 1895 until 1960.
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