West African Peoples

West Africa is divided into three major regions, Interior, West Coastal, and Southern Coastal africa.

   

Interior West Africa

This includes nations of Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, and others

West Coastal West Africa

This includes nations of Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and others

South Coastal West Africa

This includes nations of Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Togo, and others


History

Details of Interior West Africa, Western Coastal West Africa, and Southern Coastal West Africa are still being developed. Prehistory, antiquity, and classical and medieval times are not well known. Modern history is being examined. The future has not yet been well examined.

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Other sociology

Southern Coastal West African peoples, Western Coastal West African peoples, and Interior West African peoples can be examined using other peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change.

Other peoples of the world

Southern Coastal West African peoples, Western Coastal West African peoples, and Interior West African peoples can be examined using particular nations and major divisions of African peoples, Western Civilization, American Indian peoples, and Asiatic peoples

Particular nations that belong to these peoples include:

Other nations including Malaysia, North Korea, Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, Syria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Malawi can be connected.

Other African peoples including those of Uganda can be connected. Eastern African peoples including those of Kenya can be connected. Interior East African peoples such as those of Sudan can be connected. Northern East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. Central East African peoples such as those of Tanzania can be connected. Central African peoples such as those of Congo DR can be connected. Southern African peoples including those of South Africa can be connected.

Western Civilization including peoples found in Venezuela can be considered. Anglic peoples such as those of Canada can be considered. British peoples such as those of the United Kingdom can be connected. Anglo-American peoples including those of the United States can be connected. Latin peoples such as those of Peru can be considered. French peoples including those of France can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. Hispanic peoples including those of Spain can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombia can be connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany can be connected. Northeast European peoples including Poland can be connected. Russia can be connected. Ukraine can be connected.

Asiatic peoples including peoples found in Saudi Arabia can be connected.

Middle Eastern peoples such as those of Iraq can be connected. North African peoples such as those of Algeria can be connected. Morocco can be connected. Egypt can be connected. Persian peoples such as those of Afghanistan can be connected. Iran cam be cpmmected. Turkey can be connected.

South Asian peoples found in Nepal can be considered. India can be connected. Pakistan can be connected. Bangladesh can be connected.

Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Burma can be connected. Peoples of the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes such as the Philippines can be connected. Indonesia can be connected. Peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia such as those of Thailand can be connected. Vietnam can be connected.

Central Asian peoples such as those found in Uzbekistan can be connected.

Oriental peoples found in South Korea can be connected. China can be connected. Japan can be connected.

American Indian peoples found in Venezuela can be connected. South American Indian peoples such as those of Peru can be connected. Amazonian peoples including those of Argentina can be connected. Brazil can be connected. Andean peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Colombia can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Middle American Indian peoples such as those of Mexico can be considered. Southwestern American Indian peoples including those of the southwesternUnited States can be connected. North American Indian peoples such as those of Canada can be considered. Eastern North American Indian peoples such as those of the eastern United States can be connected. Western North American Indian peoples such as those of the western United States can be connected.

Communities

Communities can be connected. Particular communities not yet connected to nations include:

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes and movements including the agricultural revolution can be considered. The Agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change factors such as institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Social change processes such as innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected.

Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, and agrarian societies can be considered. Industrial society including late industrial society, middle industrial society, and early industrial society can be connected.

Social structure including community and regional structure, class structure, institutional structure, cultural structure, and anthropological structure can be considered.

Institutions

Religion including beliefs and practices can also be connected. Particular religions including pagan religion, secularism, and Asiatic religion can be considered. Abrahamic religion including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is present. Christianity including Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Mormonism can be connected. Religious organization can be connected.

Government including law, government structure, and government activity will be useful. Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected.

Economics including activities, industries, and economic systems will be important. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and schools can be connected. Families including particular families, kinship, parenting, and marriage will be useful.

Culture

Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy will be useful. Material culture including miscellaneous artifacts, communications technology, transportation technology, clothing and dress, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups can be connected. Human geography, particularly African geography, can be connected. Human ecology including human effects on the environment, relationships with other life, and environmental effects on people can be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, death, migration, and birth can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interactions, and social foundations can be connected.

Personal studies including the human body and psychology can be connected. Biography can be connected.

Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology seems to be somewhat indirectly applicable.


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