Africa has several tourist attractions offered that you can experience on your safari. Among them include the wildlife, primates, birds, butterflies, reptiles, culture, sightseeing and landscapes.These attractions can be found in National parks and game reserves, wetlands, forests, water bodies among others. On your African Safaris there those interesting attractions that you should not miss to visit and you will see them as we list them in do & see.
West Africa is the westernmost sub region of Africa. West Africa has been defined as including 18 countries:
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cape Verde
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Island of Saint Helena
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- São Tomé
- Togo
The history of West Africa can be divided into five major periods: first, its prehistory, in which the first human settlers arrived, developed agriculture, and made contact with peoples to the north; the second, the Iron Age empires that consolidated both intra – African, and extra-African trade, and developed centralized states; third, major polities flourished, which would undergo an extensive history of contact with non-Africans; fourth, the colonial period, in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the entire region; and fifth, the post-independence era, in which the current nations were formed.
