French West Africa was a colonial administrative grouping under French rule from 1895 until 1958, comprising at various times territories that are part of the present-day countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. It had its capital at Saint-Louis (in Senegal), from 1895 to 1902, and at Dakar (also in Senegal) from 1902 on. The federation’s territorial boundaries influenced the development of several modern West African countries.
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