Stella Asa Current Events Project West African Region Overview? The?history?of?West?Africa?is?a?series?of?conflicts.?Many?of?the?region?s?states?have?seen?civil?wars,?including?Sierra? Leone,?Liberia,?Guinea?Bissau,?Ivory?Coast.?There?have?been?countless?coups?d??tats?in?Gambia,?Niger,?and?Guinea,? as?well?as?ethnic?and?religious?clashes?in?Benin,?Nigeria,?and?Mali?since?these?states?gained?independence?in?1960.? Poverty,?political?despotism,?corruption?and?foreign?interference?has?wreaked?the?region?s?front,?and?caused?many? internal?struggles?for?it?s?people.?The?causes?for?West?Africa?s?tendency?to?conflict?are?diverse.?The?intra?state?