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West African   /wɛst ˈæfrəkən/   Listen
West African

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the countries or cultures or people of West Africa.





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"West African" Quotes from Famous Books



... trained to such pursuits, and encouraged to spend money on the slightest prospect of success, for half a century and more. But if we recall the circumstances it ceases to astonish. I myself spent many months in the forests of Borneo, Central America, and the West African coast. After that experience I scarcely understand how such a quest, for a given object, can ever be successful unless by mere fortune. To look for a needle in a bottle of hay is a promising enterprise compared with the search for an orchid clinging to some branch ...
— About Orchids - A Chat • Frederick Boyle
... into an easy-chair and looked around her, while Wingate did as he had suggested. The sitting room, filled with trophies of curiously mixed characteristics—a Chinese idol squatting in one corner, some West African weapons above it, two very fine moose heads over a quaintly shaped fireplace, and a row of choice Japanese prints over the bookcase—was a very masculine but eminently habitable apartment. Miss Lane looked around her ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... (home of pepper) i.e. Malabar. The exorbitant prices demanded by Venice for this spice led directly to the discovery of The Cape route by the Portuguese; as the "Grains of Paradise" (Amomum Granum Paradisi) induced the English to explore the West African Coast. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "West African" :   Fula, Ful, Wolof, Peul, Fulani, Niger-Congo, West Africa, Serer


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