West Africa is one of the oldest and most complex regions on Earth.

West Africa is one of the oldest and most complex regions on Earth.

West Africa is one of the oldest and most complex regions on Earth. West African people have dwelled there for approximately 300,000 years. The earliest human remains in West Africa are approximately more than one million years old. Some of the earliest human settlers in this region were the San people.

A separate group of East Africans moved west, encountering and mixing with Central African hunter-gatherers and eventually becoming the first West Africans. The people of Shum Laka may be the descendants of this group.

The prehistory of West Africa spans from the earliest human presence in the region until the emergence of the Iron Age in West Africa. West African populations were considerably mobile and interacted with one another throughout the population history of West Africa.

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was form by head of states who where ruling West Africa in 1960s to 1970s and it include all 16 West African countries which is Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, ivory coast , Gambia, Ghana,Guinea, Guinea-Bissa, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.