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The following 6 West African countries have English as their official (or co-official) language:

  1. Cameroon
  2. The Gambia
  3. Ghana
  4. Liberia
  5. Nigeria
  6. Sierra Leone
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Arabic in Northern Africa ; French in most of West and Central Africa, with the exception of English (in Nigeria for instance), plus tens of original dialects and languages (Peuhl, Wolof, ....)

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Sub-Saharan Africa is a general term for the countries in Africa that are south of the Sahara Desert. That includes a large amount of countries and they would each have their own official languages. So there is no single official language of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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The west of Africa has many countries, with many, many languages. West Africa is not itself a country. So there is no single official language.

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Sub-Saharan Africa is not a country, so it doesn't have an official language. The official language depend on which Sub-Saharan country you're talking about.

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