AOF (French West Africa)

French West Africa (AOF) was a general government grouping together eight French colonies in West Africa between 1895 and 1958: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Togo and Dahomey (now Benin).

Its capital was Saint-Louis (Senegal) until 1902, then Dakar (Senegal).

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