This country's capital, Dakar, was once the capital of French West Africa
The Republic of Ivory Coast one country in West Africa that once had pride as the 
.... is one of the French-speaking countries in West Africa with Dakar as the 
capital... [DOC] [TLE] Africa's 10 Capitals of Islamic Culture | From Timbuktu to Cotonou [PAR] It was once the intellectual capital of the continent, and a centre of scholastic 
activity.