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.
See also West Africa