THE WEST AFRICAN NETWORK


(map from University of Minnesota collection)
 
 

This is a place for
Alphas and Omegas of Los Angeles & Atlanta
Fulas and Yorubas of Freetown & Lagos
Filhos de Gandi and Paes de Santos of Salvador & Rio

A place for residents and descendants of  West Africa be they natives of  Accra, Ghana or Washington, D.C.
Kingston, Jamaica or Salvador, Brazil
 Choco, Colombia or Paris, France.

Features
 

Finding Roots in Nigeria








Paul Laurence Dunbar
For example, African-Americans can explain to Afro-Brazilians or Nigerians, why this poet--Paul Lawrence Dunbar--was so popular amongst our people in the United States.

OR

(Economist photo)
Nigerians Fleeing Libya
We can discuss racism...as occurred in October of 2000 when West Africans in Libya were hunted by Arab mobs because their skin is black, and more than 150 black African men killed,  after rumors that an  Arab woman had been raped by a Nigerian man.  The only black African head of state to assist the victims was Ghana's Jerry Rawlings who flew to Tripoli and brought some 250 of his people home.
 

DNA: The Key that Unlocks African Ancestry
We learn how important it is for an African Americans to learn what specific parts of Africa his ancestors come from. It is now possible to answer such questions through the latest method for tracing ancestry, DNA Fingerprinting.
 
 

LINKS TO NEWS FROM WEST AFRICA


 

OAA--Organization of Africans in the Americas

OAA Organization of Africans in the Americas

LET US WEST AFRICANS OF EVERY LAND AND OF STRIPE, COMMUNICATE.
SUGGESTIONS AND HELP WELCOMED

e-mail: westafrican@westafrican.net