Yamoussoukro is the official capital, while Abidjan is the largest city and main port. Which country is this?

Dakar lies on the Atlantic coast and is the capital of which francophone West African country?

Which city is Cameroon’s political capital, even though Douala is its larger commercial center?

Porto-Novo is Benin’s official capital, but which city is its larger economic center and major port?

Kinshasa, a vast city on the Congo River facing Brazzaville, is the capital of which country?

Kigali, known for its hilly setting and rapid urban growth, is the capital of which country?

Libreville, on the Atlantic coast near the Equator, is the capital of which country?

A Malian griot plays a 21-string instrument with a large calabash resonator, plucked with thumbs and forefingers. What is it?

Which instrument consists of tuned wooden bars over calabash resonators and is struck with mallets?

Which West African drum has a goblet-shaped wooden body and a single goatskin head played with bare hands?

Which small instrument is played by plucking metal tongues with the thumbs and is often called a thumb piano?

In Senegal, a small hourglass-shaped drum is squeezed under the arm so its pitch can change. What is it called?

Which Malian textile is dyed with fermented mud, producing dark geometric motifs on cotton cloth?

The Senegalese novel Une si longue lettre is a widow’s long letter to her friend. Who wrote it?

Which Senegalese writer and filmmaker wrote the novel Xala and directed films about postcolonial Senegal?

Les Soleils des indépendances, a novel about the disappointments following independence, was written by whom?

Which Congolese writer authored the surreal political novel La Vie et demie?

Which Cameroonian novelist wrote L’Intérieur de la nuit, a novel set during conflict in an unnamed African country?

Touki Bouki, the acclaimed 1973 Senegalese film about two young people dreaming of France, was directed by whom?

Fourteen West and Central African countries use currencies pegged to the euro under a shared monetary arrangement. What are these currencies commonly called?

Which country is the world’s leading producer of cocoa beans, a major export used to make chocolate?

Guinea is especially important to the global aluminum industry because it has major reserves of which ore?

Burkina Faso, along with Mali and Benin, is one of Africa’s top producers of which cash crop, grown by many small farmers?

The port of Djibouti is strategically important because it handles much trade for which landlocked neighboring country?

What is the official currency of Madagascar?

The largest earth-built structure in the world is replastered each year by local residents. Which landmark is it?

Which immense Catholic church in Côte d’Ivoire was modeled in part on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome?

Which Casablanca landmark is a vast mosque with a minaret rising above Morocco’s Atlantic coast?

The royal palaces of Abomey, a UNESCO site tied to the former Kingdom of Dahomey, are in which country?

Which Tunisian landmark is one of the oldest and most important mosques in the Maghreb?