Currency is the medium of exchange which is derived from the Latin word currens, -entis that functions as legal tender. It is accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context which is circulated as banknote and coins.
| Country | Capital City | Name of Currency |
| Algeria | Algiers | Algerian Dinar |
| Angola | Luanda | Angolan Kwanza |
| Benin | Porto-Novo | West African CFA franc |
| Botswana | Gaborone | Pula (BWP) |
| Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | West African CFA franc |
| Burundi | Bujumbura | Burundi Franc |
| Cameroon | Yaounde | West African CFA francs |
| Cape Verde | Praia | Cape Verdean Escudo |
| Central African Rep. | Bangui | Central African CFA franc |
| Chad | N'Djamena | Central African CFA franc |
| Comoros | Moroni | Comorian franc (KMF) |
| Congo (DRC) | Kinshasa | Congolese Franc (CDF) |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Yamoussoukro | West African CFA franc |
| Djibouti | Djibouti | Franc (DJF) |
| Egypt | Cairo | Egyptian pound (EGP) |
| Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | Central African CFA franc |
| Eritrea | Asmara | Nakfa (ERN) |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | Birr (ETB) |
| Gabon | Libreville | Central African CFA franc |
| Gambia | Banjul | Dalasi (GMD) |
| Ghana | Accra | Ghana cedi |
| Guinea | Conakry | Guinea Franc |
| Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | West African CFA franc |
| Kenya | Nairobi | Kenyan shilling |
| Lesotho | Maseru | Lesotho loti |
| Liberia | Monrovia | Liberian Dollar |
| Libya | Tripoli | Libyan Dinar |
| Madagascar | Antananarivo | Malagasy ariary |
| Malawi | Lilongwe | Kwacha |
| Mali | Bamako | West African CFA franc |
| Mauritania | Nouakchott | Ouguiya |
| Mauritius | Mauritius | Mauritian rupee |
| Morocco | Rabat | Moroccan Dirham |
| Mozambique | Maputo | Mozambican metical |
| Namibia | Windhoek | Namibian dollar |
| Niger | Niamey | West African CFA franc |
| Nigeria | Abuja | Naira |
| Rwanda | Kigali | Rwanda Franc |
| Sao Tome & Principe | Sao Tome | Dobra |
| Senegal | Dakar | CFA franc |
| Seychelles | Victoria | Seychellois rupee (SCR) |
| Sierra Leone | Freetown | Sierra Leonean leone (SLL) |
| Somalia | Mogadishu | Somali Shilling |
| South Africa | Pretoria | South African Rand (ZAR) |
| South Sudan | Juba | South Sudanese pound (SSP) |
| Sudan | Khartoum | Sudanese pound (SDG) |
| Swaziland | Mbabane | Lilangeni |
| Tanzania | Dodoma | Tanzanian Schilling |
| Togo | Lomé | Central African CFA franc |
| Tunisia | Tunis | Tunisian Dinar |
| Uganda | Kampala | Uganda Shilling |
| Western Sahara | Laayoune | Moroccan Dirham (The majority of the territory of Western Sahara is currently administered by the Kingdom of Morocco.) |
| Zambia | Lusaka | Zambian Kwacha (ZMK) |
| Zimbabwe | Harare | Zimbabwean Dollar (ZWD) |
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