The West Africa Study Circle, formed in 1950, is the international specialist society for the study of stamps, postal stationery and postal history of West Africa. Cameo is its award-winning journal.

From these links, you will find brief introductions to each area: Ascension / Tristan da Cunha / Gough Is. Cameroons Gambia Gold Coast / Ghana Nigeria St Helena Sierra Leone Togo

Additionally, several other areas are also included: British Postal Agencies on Madeira, Tenerife. St Vincent (Cape Verde Islands) and Fernando Po.

Study dates from the earliest times and includes military campaigns, maritime, censorship and airmails. There is also occasional discussion, and articles in Cameo, of material linked to other territories in West Africa.

For information about WASC membership, officers, constitution, and data privacy visit our membership page.

Issues of Cameo previous to the latest five years have been digitised. All issues from number 1 (January 1975) to number 103 (January 2018) are freely available on this website. Click the CAMEO button above to reach the link for both downloadable and screen readable versions.

The index to Cameo volumes 1 to 23 is now available in two PDF files with some overlap. The first is organised by administration (Ascension, Biafra etc.) and the second by subject (airmail, book reviews, obituaries etc.). They can be downloaded from here: Volumes 1 to 23 by administration and Volumes 1 to 23 by subject

Recently added to our Meetings page is the complete set of livestream links to the sessions successfully streamed since our conference in 2021.

Also added: November 2023 updates to Paul Redhead's Cancellations of Nigeria
(see publications page)

Our "Additional Documents" page has papers under sectional headings. Under Maritime Documents is a group of Elder Dempster sailing timetables, together with maps beautifully drawn by Peter Wingent (a sample map can be seen there). Some other documents produced by members on, for example, RAF West Africa-Rabat, Civil Aviation, Nigerian postmarks, are reached by links from the "Additional Documents" page. Visit that page also for a link to a free update (October 2021) to "Ghana Postal Markings to 1957" by Ian Anderson and Philip Quirk

If you wish to contact the Study Circle for information which does not appear on the site, please use this email address (remove spaces): webmanager @ wasc. org. uk