Hi iam from east africa And i am here to learn more about west African culture, The food, what's the official language you all speak? I am here to learn so please if you don't wanna help don't mind answer this post, thanks.

somali

Good really like this kind of exchange between brothers, West Africa is quite wide and diverse I'm from Cameroon from central Africa but for my west africain brothers we are from West Africa lol , we can already see the difficult geographic delimitation of this region. Anyway for me West Africa can be divided between "Sahelians"( Niger, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea (both), Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone) and People non Sahelian mix of Bantu people and others (Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Togo, Benin, which have also sahelian people generally in the North but not as the previous countries).

As for culture we can divided this as below, but a thing is that this region has a huge and rich culture in terms of food( rice the most of time, plantains, )

abu07:

Hi iam from east africa And i am here to learn more about west African culture, The food, what's the official language you all speak? I am here to learn so please if you don't wanna help don't mind answer this post, thanks.

hey welcome abu07 

West Africa doesn't have a uniform culture even though there are a few similarities. West Africans do not have a single official language - our region is very diverse so I guess in order to facitilate your research you may want to study a few or a particular country in the region. If you want to find out more about one particular country then in order to have a decent sample I suggest you pick a Sahelian country coupled with a Coastal one and probably a few with different official languages.
However rice is a staple in all West African countries.

abu07:

Somali

Yea Nairaland has a very vibrant Somali community  . Somalilife, sara24, and african1 are some that i can think of. We've got some pretty good conversations going in the Racism tribalism sectarianism  section.

Probably the most famous west African ethnic group is the Hausa. Their language is used all over W. Africa and the Sahel, some of them even live in Sudan. The Hausa are predominately Islamic and usually very hard-core Muslims. In Nigeria they are paired up with the Fulani who typically herd cattle, in the Northern part of the country.

In the South you have the majority Igbo in the East who are christian and extremely business oriented and they Know how to make money legitimately or illegitimately  . And in the west you have the Yoruba who are half christian half Muslim. There lots of other minority groups throughout the country but those are the main ones.

The official language is English in Nigeria but French in all the neighboring countries, and every country is west Africa either speaks French or English. And we all eat basicaly the same types of food. ( which i must admitt is not the best lol)

pleep:

Yea Nairaland has a very vibrant Somali community  . Somalilife, sara24, and african1 are some that i can think of. We've got some pretty good conversations going in the Racism tribalism sectarianism  section.

Probably the most famous west African ethnic group is the Hausa. Their language is used all over W. Africa and the Sahel, some of them even live in Sudan. The Hausa are predominately Islamic and usually very hard-core Muslims. In Nigeria they are paired up with the Fulani who typically herd cattle, in the Northern part of the country.
In the South you have the majority Igbo in the East who are christian and extremely business oriented and they Know how to make money legitimately or illegitimately  . And in the west you have the Yoruba who are half christian half Muslim. There lots of other minority groups throughout the country but those are the main ones.

The official language is English in Nigeria but French in all the neighboring countries, and every country is west Africa either speaks French or English. And we all eat basicaly the same types of food. ( which i must admitt is not the best lol)

yeaahhhh.Hausas r the best. lol jus kid, we all gud sha.  i am Hausa, but ofcourse non-muslim.  

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Welcome!

Tell us more about Somali.

Where I come from, {Nigeria} we are bombarded with culture so vast it's comparable to a beautiful mosiac.
The fun part is, more pieces can be added!
So again I welcome you my brother.

Somalia is a beautiful country made entirely out of guns and camels and infested with Captain Jack Sparrow's crew.

West Africa is a community of 16 countries With the exception of Mauritania all the others 15 African countries are members of the Ecowas (The Economic community of west African states ) or CEDEAO ( La communaute Economique des Etats d Afrique de l ouest )
5 are English speaking          ( Gambia  Ghana   Liberia  Nigeria   Sierra leone  )
2 are Portuguese speaking    (Cape verde     Guinea Bissau )
8 are French speaking          (  Senegal   Mali   Togo   Benin   Cote d Ivoire    Niger   Guinea     Burkina Faso )

1 is Arabic speaking              ( Mauritania also member of the Arab Maghreb Union with Algeria Libya Morocco Tunisia )

Also despite the variety of cultures in west Africa there are general similarities in dress music and cuisine
Islam is the predominant historical religion in west Africa while Christianity is widely present in central and southern Nigeria and Ghana 
The predominant tribes in west Africa are Hausa and Fulani  followed by the Bambara (Mandingo)

PAGAN 9JA:

Somalia is a beautiful country made entirely out of guns and camels and infested with Captain Jack Sparrow's crew.

Lol at Jack Sparrow's crew. Tell me this tho, when was the last time someone said anything bad about the Pirates of the Carribean?

hehe true. 

i am Hausa, but ofcourse non-muslim

stop claiming hausa man. most hausa are muslim not pagan. if u dont fit in the domiant group then stop claiming them just because u speak the language. u dont c AA's saying they are white because they speak english. u r maguzuwa simple. leave hausa to muslims

^^ aren't you a Hausa that says you are Arab? https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-49391.msg8596993;topicseen#msg8596993

what makes you think i am a Hausa?

Oh, I just assumed you were lol. So were r u from Yemen?

عبدالكريم:

stop claiming hausa man. most hausa are muslim not pagan. if u dont fit in the domiant group then stop claiming them just because u speak the language. u dont c AA's saying they are white because they speak english. u r maguzuwa simple. leave hausa to muslims

I AM HAUSA. Hausa doesnt mean muslim even if most r muslim.

atleast im not an arab wannabe lyk u disgusting shameless aljimaris.

Who are you to tell Pagan who he is and who he is not? Your not his mother.

he reminds me of this fella called IG who kips tryin to prov im aa Berber or a Touareg. 

dem ppls think they r my mom.

i must say im sick of this over-maternal affection.

PAGAN 9JA:

he reminds me of this fella called IG who kips tryin to prov im aa Berber or a Touareg.

dem ppls think they r my mom.

i must say im sick of this over-maternal affection.

Ofcourse your sick of it, it is not very attractive. Lol I seriously don't know what he wants from you. Maybe he has a weird secret fetish obsession with you. Lol

then he must go play with a doll.

PAGAN 9JA:

then he must go play with a doll.

Lol You mean like an African voodoo and such?

no no no. thats sacrilege!!!!!

i meant lyk sum s** toy or sumthin, cuz he seems to hav a fetish.

wow now your talkin about fetishes. I just hate for weirdos to claim hausa when they are majority Muslim and you are trying to make up a group called pagan-hausa. You might as well go to the klu klux klan and say that you are a black klansman.

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no no no. thats sacrilege!!!!!

i meant lyk sum s** toy or sumthin, cuz he seems to hav a fetish.

Oh! Lol Damn, but you know it might help

I think pagan9ja is Somali.

^^^^^ Lol How

pleep:

I think pagan9ja is Somali.

my my. first white man, den arab, den berber/touareg, now somali!!! 

wat nxt chinese

PAGAN 9JA:

my my. first white man, den arab, den berber/touareg, now somali!!!

wat nxt chinese

Dont say that like it is a bad thing

u mean d italics makes it luk bad??  i thought twas meant 2 add an element of stress.