WEST AFRICA - HISTORY

West Africa is full of different cultures. The slave trade hit West Africa very badly. This is because it was very easy to get to by many European countries. When slavery did end it had both a positive and negative effect on West Africa. The positive effect was that the European countries that conquered West Africa stayed and set up schools and transportation for the Africans. The negative effect was that many West Africans left their farms to work at factories and they were getting very low wages for it.

What people don’t realize about West Africa is that it is modern. Lots of people think that families still like in mud huts and some still do, but mostly lots of people live in houses of high-rise apartments. Also, the clothing that they wear is modernized. The material is still of African culture but the design is all very western. So as you can see, West Africa is a fairly modernized region.