West African
10
3.5
- adjective
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de África occidental
- Within this framework, we can chart interstate conflict among West African states during the past decade or so.
- West African Economic
- West African States
- West African country
There's no longer a bunch of West African countries willing to sell you stuff cheaply.
- There's no longer a bunch of West African countries willing to sell you stuff cheaply.
- But so in terms of the origins of these stories about Ebo landing, I can see the West African influence.
- And we're hoping that Gambia's West African friends will step into to exert serious pressure to prevent that.
- And I started looking more and more at the West African context and I was wondering why we have a lot of these sauces that are that draw.
- Why did we humans, you know, drive the West African black rhino extinct?
- I mean some of those who were carted off the slaves who were sold by West African kings to European traders and taken off to the to the Caribbean.
- Perhaps my favorite spills over from Hindu traditions into West African mythology, and it's the story of Anansi.
Examples
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Prior to Sankara's leadership, Francophone West African states had coexisted peacefully and cooperatively under general French patronage.
Academic text (1990) -
European territorial claims along the West African coast were often weak and usually contested.
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Most West African oil, for example, now flows to Asia rather than to the United States.
Academic text (2015) -
A lecture on our African past, on our great West African heritage.
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The New Orleans jazz funeral developed in much the same way as West African death rituals.
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The people are cultivators who follow a division of labor typical of many other West African communities.
Academic text (1993) -
In both European and West African cultures, mirrors are thought to dispel evil.
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Even today, fufu is a commonplace of the West African diet.
Academic text (1991) -
In our lesson, we taught students a typical West African two-against-three polyrhythm to illustrate this idea.
Academic text (2015) -
The vibrant culture of the West African region is known for its diverse music and art.
How Specific
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'from the western part of Africa' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'West' (western region) with 'African' (pertaining to Africa). This geographic, compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard adjective+noun combination rules, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
West African comes from joining West and African, like pointing to the western side of the map of Africa where certain countries and cultures are found. So it means 'of or relating to the countries, cultures, or people of West Africa'.