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Compagnie du Sénégal et de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique

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The Compagnie du Sénégal (SCOA) (French for "the Senegal Company" or "Company of the Senegal"), officially the Compagnie du Sénégal et de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique ("Company of the Senegal and of the West Coast of Africa") was a 19th-century colonial French company involved in the palm oil trade in Nigeria.

The company was founded at Marseilles by a M. Verminck. Along with the French Equatorial African Association, the Senegal Company received subsidies from the Léon Gambetta administration and was intended to establish French claims on the lower Niger. At its height, it operated 14 trading posts on the Niger and Benue rivers. Following a years-long price war and Gambetta's death in 1882, the company sold its interests in the region to the British United African Company in October 1884.

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