Answer
- The West African countries lost most of their able-bodied men and women to the slave trade.
- West Africa had more natural resources than other parts of Africa.
Explanation
Decline in the west Africa populace. the trans Atlantic slave exchange constrained twelve to fifteen million individuals to relocate from Africa. This made the staying West African individuals to be unfit to support their nation politically, financially and in cultivating.
The numerous common assets that west Africans had were taken by the Europeans amid the slave exchange period leaving the west Africans with nothing or less assets to support them.
