The Banque de l'Afrique occidentale, known from 1853 to 1901 as Banque du Sénégal and from 1965 to 1990 as the Banque internationale pour l'Afrique occidentale, was a bank headquartered in Dakar. Duri
New main office of the BAO in Dakar, ca. 1904
Building at 78, rue de Provence in Paris, BAO head office from 1901 to 1911
Building at 38, rue La Bruyère in Paris, BAO head office from 1911 to the early 1940s
Building at 9, avenue de Messine in Paris, postwar head office of the BAO then the BIAO until the latter's liquidation
The Central Bank of West African States is a central bank serving the eight west African countries which share the common West African CFA franc currency and comprise the West African Economic and Mon
Banque de l'Afrique occidentale
…France to simultaneously terminate the monetary role of the BAO in French West Africa and Togo and to grant it instead to another new institution, the Institut d'Émission de l'Afrique Occidentale Française et du Togo. Later in 1955, the French government divested its shares in the BAO's capital. From then on, the BAO continued its activity as a commercial bank with…
BCEAO headquarters in Dakar, Senegal
Building at 29, rue du Colisée in Paris, head office of BCEAO from the early 1960s to relocation to Dakar in 1978
BCEAO headquarters tower in Dakar (center)
Benin Agency in Cotonou