page_title: 2020 in West Africa
section_title: January and February
hierarchical_section_title: 2020 in West Africa / Deaths / January and February
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Allah Thérèse artiste musicienne ivoirienne aux journées des NTIC à Abidjan
context_page_description: The following lists events that happened during 2020 in West Africa, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha; Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
  The 16 independent countries and one territory have a combined population of 401,861,254.
context_section_description: January 5 – Issiaka Ouattara, 53, Ivorian rebel general (First Ivorian Civil War)
  January 9
  Chukwuemeka Ike, 88, Nigerian writer
  Matthew Quashie, 68, Ghanaian naval officer
  January 19
  Charles Carrère, 91, Senegalese poet
  Allah Thérèse, Ivorian traditional singer
  January 22 – John S. Pobee, 82, Ghanaian theologian
  January 27 – James Houra, 67, Ivorian painter
  February 2 – Peter Aluma, 46, Nigerian basketball player (Liberty University, Sacramento Kings)
  February 4 – Asiwaju Yinka Mafe, 46, Nigerian politician
  February 12 – Victor Olaiya, 89, Nigerian highlife trumpeter
  February 14
  Peter Iornzuul Adoboh, 61, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Katsina-Ala (since 2013)
  Adama Kouyaté, 92, Malian photographer
  February 16 – Erickson Le Zulu, 41, Ivorian disc jockey; liver cirrhosis
  February 20 – Emmanuel Emovon, 90, Nigerian chemist and academic
caption: Allah Thérèse
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