French West Africa Map

In fact, most of the countries in west africa have not given official. French was introduced during the colonial period and retained as the official language upon independence. The map also shows the location of the largest/most populos cities in west africa.

Though it gained its independence in 1958, mali remained a french vassal state. Initially, the europeans that went there tried to be influential by using religion and language. Aofmap1936 soudan français.png 2,200 × 1,600;

It is important to note that the university of texas arlington dates this map at 1790 while stanford university has the imprint listed as 1772.

Once a great kingdom, known as the mandinka empire, mali was colonized by france in 1892. Certain territories of the sudan were grouped together under the name senegambia and niger. If you look just under the label nigritia ( negroland ), you’ll see lam lam. French was introduced during the colonial period and retained as the official language upon independence.