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Lebanese Nigerians, the Glossary

Lebanese Nigerians (Arabic: نيجيريون لبنانيون) are Nigerians with Lebanese ancestry, including Lebanese-born immigrants to Nigeria.^[1]

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Immigrants to Nigeria
Lebanese diaspora in Africa

Abuja

Abuja is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria.

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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Anwar M. El-Khalil

Anwar M. El-Khalil (born 9 March 1938) is a Druze Lebanese politician and former member of the Lebanese Parliament representing the Marjeyoun-Hasbaya district.

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The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Arise News

Arise News is a London-based world news channel.

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Bilal Fawaz

Bilal Kelvin Fawaz (born 3 April 1988) is a UK-based professional boxer of mixed Lebanese and Benin origin.

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Bola Tinubu

Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who is the 16th and current president of Nigeria.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Christianity in Lebanon

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Colonial Nigeria

Colonial Nigeria was ruled by the British Empire from the mid-nineteenth century until 1 October 1960 when Nigeria achieved independence.

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Eastern Christianity

Eastern Christianity comprises Christian traditions and church families that originally developed during classical and late antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean region or locations further east, south or north.

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Ely Calil

Ely Calil (8 December 1945 – 28 May 2018) was a Lebanese businessman holding British citizenship.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French West Africa

French West Africa (Afrique-Occidentale française, italic) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.

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George Calil

George Calil (born 29 March 1973) is an English actor known for his role in the TV mini-series Band of Brothers, where he portrayed Sergeant James H. "Mo" Alley, Jr.

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George Calil (businessman)

George Calil (died 1967) was a Lebanese businessman who operated his business in the Nigerian city of Kano.

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Ghanaian Arabs

Ghanaian Arabs (Arabes ghanéens; Akan: Nkɔmbɔtwetwe Arabia Gaana; غانيون عرب.) are Ghanaians and citizens of Arab origin or descent.

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Gilbert Chagoury

Gilbert Ramez Chagoury (born 1946) is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, diplomat and philanthropist.

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Hassan El Mohamad

Hassan Jamal El Mohamad (حسن جمال المحمد; born 24 August 1988) is a Lebanese former footballer who played as a forward.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Harshen/Halshen Hausa; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast.

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History of the Jews in Lebanon

The history of the Jews in Lebanon encompasses the presence of Jews in present-day Lebanon stretching back to biblical times.

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Hypernymy and hyponymy

Hypernymy and hyponymy are the semantic relations between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym).

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Ibadan

Ibadan is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria.

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Islam in Lebanon

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Jigawa State

Jigawa State (Jihar Jigawa; Leydi Jigawa 𞤤𞤫𞤴𞤮𞤤 𞤶𞤭𞤺𞤢𞤱𞤢) is one of the 36 states of Nigeria, located in the northern region of the country.

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Jwaya

Jwaya (جويا) or Jouaiya, is a town in Tyre district, Lebanon.

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Kano (city)

Kano (Ajami: كَنُواْ) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State.

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Lagos

Lagos (also US), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.

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Laila St. Matthew-Daniel

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Languages of Nigeria

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Lebanese Arabic

Lebanese Arabic (عَرَبِيّ لُبْنَانِيّ; autonym), or simply Lebanese (لُبْنَانِيّ; autonym), is a variety of North Levantine Arabic, indigenous to and primarily spoken in Lebanon, with significant linguistic influences borrowed from other Middle Eastern and European languages and is in some ways unique from other varieties of Arabic.

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Lebanese Civil War

The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990.

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The Lebanese International School is a private school in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. Lebanese Nigerians and Lebanese Community School are Lebanese diaspora in Africa.

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Lebanese cuisine

Lebanese cuisine is the culinary traditions and practices originating from Lebanon.

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Lebanese diaspora

Lebanese diaspora refers to Lebanese migrants and their descendants who emigrated from Lebanon and now reside in other countries.

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Lebanese Druze

The Lebanese Druze (durūz lubnān) are an ethnoreligious group constituting about 5.2 percent U.S. Department of State.

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Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christians

Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christians (المسيحية الأرثوذكسية الرومية في لبنان) refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch in Lebanon, which is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and is the second-largest Christian denomination in Lebanon after the Maronite Christians.

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Lebanese liquidity crisis

The Lebanese liquidity crisis is an ongoing financial crisis affecting Lebanon, that became fully apparent in August 2019, and was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon (which began in February 2020), the 2020 Beirut port explosion and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Lebanese Maronite Christians

Lebanese Maronite Christians (المسيحية المارونية في لبنان; ܡܫܝܚܝ̈ܐ ܡܪ̈ܘܢܝܐ ܕܠܒܢܢ) refers to Lebanese people who are members of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, the largest Christian denomination in the country.

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Lebanese Melkite Christians

Lebanese Melkite Christians refers to Lebanese people who are members of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Lebanon, which is the third largest Christian group in the country after the Maronite Church and the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.

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Lebanese people in Ivory Coast

Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast are a community of people whose ancestors are Lebanese and either emigrated to the Ivory Coast directly or are descended from those who did. Lebanese Nigerians and Lebanese people in Ivory Coast are Lebanese diaspora in Africa.

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Lebanese people in Senegal

There is a significant community of Lebanese people in Senegal. Lebanese Nigerians and Lebanese people in Senegal are Lebanese diaspora in Africa.

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Lebanese people in Sierra Leone

There is a significant population of Lebanese people in Sierra Leone. Lebanese Nigerians and Lebanese people in Sierra Leone are Lebanese diaspora in Africa.

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Lebanese Protestant Christians

Lebanese Protestant Christians (بروتستانت لبنان) refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of Protestantism in Lebanon.

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Lebanese Shia Muslims

Lebanese Shia Muslims (المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيون), communally and historically known as matāwila (متاولة, plural of متوال mutawālin; pronounced as متوالي metouali or matawali in Lebanese Arabic), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role alongside Lebanon's main Sunni, Maronite and Druze sects.

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Lebanese Sunni Muslims

Lebanese Sunni Muslims (المسلمون السنة اللبنانيين) refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of the Sunni branch of Islam in Lebanon, which is one of the largest denomination in Lebanon tied with Shias.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Libya

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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List of Lebanese people in Africa

This is a list of notable individuals born in Africa (outside the Arab World / North Africa) of Lebanese ancestry or people of dual Lebanese and local nationality born and/or residing in Africa.

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Lola Maja

Lola Maja (born Omolola Maja; 26 January 1978), also known as Lola Maja-Okojevoh, is a Nigerian make-up artist; her specialties include special effects, eyebrows and eyelashes.

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Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon

The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; al-intidāb al-faransīalā sūriyā wa-lubnān, also referred to as the Levant States; 1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, concerning Syria and Lebanon.

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Maronite Catholic Eparchy of the Annunciation

The Eparchy of the Annunciation is an Eparchy of the Maronite Church immediately subject to the Holy See located in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal and Angola. Lebanese Nigerians and Maronite Catholic Eparchy of the Annunciation are Lebanese diaspora in Africa.

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Maronites

Maronites (Al-Mawārinah; Marunoye) are a Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of West Asia, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the largest concentration long residing near Mount Lebanon in modern Lebanon.

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May El-Khalil

May El Khalil is the Founder and President of the Beirut Marathon Association, which oversees the annual Beirut Marathon and has been held every autumn since 2003.

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Mimi Fawaz

Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports.

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Miziara

Miziara (known also as Meziara, Arabic: مزيارة) is a town located in the Zgharta District in the North Governorate of Lebanon.

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Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews (יהודי המִזְרָח), also known as Mizrahim (מִזְרָחִים) or Mizrachi (מִזְרָחִי) and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach (עֲדוֹת־הַמִּזְרָח), are terms used in Israeli discourse to refer to a grouping of Jewish communities that lived in the Muslim world.

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Mona Khalil

Mona al-Khalil (born 2 August 1949 in Lagos, Nigeria), commonly known as Mona Khalil and sometimes transliterated as Mona el-Khalil, is a conservationist and environmentalist in Southern Lebanon, who specialised in the protection of endangered sea turtles.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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MTV (Lebanon)

Murr Television, marketed and known as MTV Lebanon, is a Lebanese television station based in Naccache, Metn District.

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Nasserism

Nasserism is an Arab nationalist and Arab socialist political ideology based on the thinking of Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the two principal leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and Egypt's second President.

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Nicole Moudaber

Nicole Moudaber is a Lebanese/British event promoter, record label founder, radio personality, and DJ/producer.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Nigerian English

Nigerian English, also known as Nigerian Standard English, is a dialect of English spoken in Nigeria.

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Nigerian Pidgin

Nigerian Pidgin, also known as Naijá in scholarship, is an English-based creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria.

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Northern People's Congress

The Northern People's Congress (NPC) is a political party in Nigeria.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Ottoman Syria

Ottoman Syria (سوريا العثمانية) was a group of divisions of the Ottoman Empire within the region of Syria, usually defined as being east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Euphrates River, north of the Arabian Desert and south of the Taurus Mountains.

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Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt (Pidgin: Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria.

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Racialization

Racialization or ethnicization is a sociological concept used to describe the intent and processes by which ethnic or racial identities are systematically constructed within a society.

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Ronald Chagoury

Ronald Chagoury (born January 8, 1949) is a Nigerian businessman, co-founder (with his billionaire brother Gilbert Chagoury), and CEO of the Chagoury Group.

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Sam Darwish

Sam Darwish is a U.S. entrepreneur active in the telecommunications industry.

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Sani Abacha

Sani Abacha ((20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military dictator and statesman who ruled Nigeria with an iron-fist as the military head of state from 1993 following a palace coup d'état until his sudden death in 1998. Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history.

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Shia Islam in Nigeria

Although the majority of the Nigerian Muslim population is Sunni, there is a small Shia minority, particularly in the northern states of Kano and Sokoto.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Sun (Nigeria)

The Sun is a Nigerian daily print newspaper founded and published in KiriKiri Industrial Layout, Lagos, Nigeria.

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TheCable

TheCable is an independent online newspaper in Nigeria.

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Tiffany Trump

Tiffany Ariana Trump (born October 13, 1993) is the fourth child of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, and his only child with his second wife, Marla Maples.

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Tinubu Square

Tinubu Square, formerly Independence Square, is an open space landmark located in Broad Street, Lagos Island, Lagos State, Nigeria named after the Yoruba slave trader, merchant, and aristocrat Madam Efunroye Tinubu.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Illinois System

The University of Illinois System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Illinois consisting of three universities: University of Illinois Chicago, University of Illinois Springfield, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Victoria Island, Lagos

Victoria Island (VI) is an affluent area that encompasses a former island of the same name neighbouring Lagos Island, Ikoyi and the Lekki Peninsula by the Lagos Lagoon.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Nigerians

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Immigrants to Nigeria

Lebanese diaspora in Africa

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