West Africans in the United States

West Africans in the United States are Americans with ancestry from West Africa. They include:


 * Beninese Americans
 * Burkinabé Americans
 * Cape Verdean Americans
 * Chadian Americans
 * Gambian Americans
 * Ghanaian Americans
 * Guinean Americans
 * Guinea-Bissauan Americans
 * Ivorian Americans
 * Liberian Americans
 * Malian Americans
 * Mauritanian Americans
 * Nigerien Americans
 * Nigerian Americans
 * Igbo Americans
 * Yoruba Americans
 * Senegalese Americans
 * Sierra Leonean Americans
 * Togolese Americans

In addition, they include a majority of African-American people, whose ancestors were sourced largely from West African states via the Atlantic slave trade.