West Africa (magazine)

[2] The title was revived on 3 February 1917 from offices in Fleet Street, London, with the commercial backing of Elder Dempster Shipping Line and the trading company John Holt.

Its first editorial explained the magazine's raison d'être: The fabric of the British Empire is complex; but that proportion which constitutes West Africa is in important respects unique.

This is a factor the significance of which has not been fully appreciated until now, when it is clear to all who study maps and statistics that the commercial and food products of West Africa are vitally necessary to the Empire in war, and scarcely less so in peace.

It offers itself as a friend to every cause which holds out a prospect of advancing the position of West Africa as a prosperous and contented member of the Empire...".

In 1993 a commemorative volume was published, entitled West Africa Over 75 Years: Selections from the Raw Material of History, edited by the magazine's then editor-in-chief, Kaye Whiteman, and researched by Kole Omotoso, Ferdinand Dennis and Alfred Zack-Williams.