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.
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