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French West Africa

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French West Africa
A former federation (1895-1958) of French territories in western Africa comprising the present-day countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal.


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Senegal is the former capital of Colonial French West Africa.
West Africa unplugged: Senegal offers a gateway to American companies ... by Rovelo, Carlos / Recycling Today
Jean Prouve manufactured two prototypes of a tropical house that were air-shipped to French West Africa in 1951 (AR December 2005), but he, too, was soon out of business.
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As it turned out, the little building was purely utilitarian, a prefabricated house conceived and built by the French constructeur Jean Prouve for use in colonial French West Africa.
Pret a Prouve: Thomas Lawson on the tropical house by Lawson, Thomas / Artforum International
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