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Money, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso

By |  Jan 1, 1992  | togo, ghana, ivory-coast, burkina-faso, nigeria
All of French West Africa shares a common currency, the CFA, tied at 50:1 to the French Franc. In Paris you can convert unlimited amounts of Francs to CFA and back, thus giving these countries a hard currency, and French colonials a place where they can still do business as always. The Anglophone countries (Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia) all have their own currencies, with a corresponding rate of inflation, but (it seems) very serviceable.
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