This category is for the regions of Western Africa in which the people/culture that made the instrument/s is unknown.  The main geographic regions include: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The western side of Chad can also be counted as part of Western Africa.