West Africa history

West Africa has a very diverse culture, religion, people, language, clothing, family and way of building homes. For example in west africa the religions vary from Anism to Christianity and Islam. Also, there cultures reflect influences like from traditional African, European, culture and Islamic. Clothing families and homes, because of influence such as religion and climate. People and language, because it depends on what type of ethnic group your in (Hausa, fauni, yoruba, and Igbo).
Europeans had a big effect on west africa by colonizing and politically re-layed out the region of Africa, the west africans were not happy about this.