Body: People who study "History of West Africa" investigate historical facts of the Western African civilization.
Some motivations are understand what Africa was before it was colonized, understand the consequences of colonization, learn about its culture.
Davidson, Basil, Hopkins, Antony Gerald, Ehret, Christopher are a few specialists of "History of West Africa".
Some subfields in "History of West Africa" include Colonization, Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, Nigerian Civil War...