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WINNER OF 2014 MISS WEST AFRICA

 British-Nigerian video vixen Jojo Lara born Joanna Olu Ebun Fabikun has been crowned Miss West Africa UK 2014. The stunning beauty beat out several other contestants to clinch the crown on Saturday September 6 2014, in London. This will be JoJo’s second attempt at a beauty pageant. She tried as a contestant in the Miss Universe Britain pageant a few months ago. Sadly,...

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The Scramble For Africa

In the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s the Europeans started to colonise the inland of West Africa, they had previously mostly controlled trading ports along the coasts and rivers. Samory Ture's newly founded Wassoulou Empire was the last to fall, and with his capture in 1898, military resistance to French colonial rule effectively ended. Post-colonial West Africa Further information: Decolonisation of Africa...

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THE WEST AFRICAN CULTURE

The history of West Africa began with the first human settlements around 12,000 BCE. It has been commonly divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and finally the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed. West Africa is west of an imagined north-south axis lying close to 10° east longitude, bordered by...

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