A division of Decca, devoted - not surprisingly - to West African music. Decca West Africa records seem to have been issued throughout the 1950s and the 1960s and into the early 1970s. They were were given yellow versions of the standard Decca label of the time: one with a non-boxed logo in the early and mid '60s (1), one with a boxed logo from c.1968 onwards (2). The print seems to have turned from silver to black around 1969 (3). Several different numerical series were used, including NWA-5000 (for Nigerian records), GWA-4000 (for Ghanaian records), and WAX-100 (for EPs). The records were intended for export in the main, though some of them at least were included in the British Decca main catalogue and were in theory available here, which is the reason that I have included the label on this site. The records which featured in the catalogues for 1973 and 1977 have been gathered in the list below. The scan of the white sleeve comes by courtesy of Robert Bowes.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.