West Africa Gold Inc. Appoints New Chairman to Its Advisory Committee

Market Wire, July, 2004

West Africa Gold Inc. (OTC BB: WAGI) announced today that it has appointed Dr. Wayne P. Colliston as the new Chairman of its Advisory Committee. This Committee will be initially focusing on the evaluation of all the geological data and Mining Reports in respect of the Company's initial five Mining Projects in Mali, West Africa and the Company's recently acquired Gold Mining Properties in Arizona. The Advisory Committee will be formulating the Company's strategy for the exploration and development of these mining projects.

Richard Axtell, the President of West Africa Gold Inc., said today that he was delighted to have a leading light in the Mining Industry as the Chairman of the Company's Advisory Board and was looking forward to the enormous value that would be created for the Company's shareholders through this appointment of Dr. Colliston and his team.

Dr. Wayne P. Colliston Pr Sci Nat FGS (London) received an internationally recognized PhD degree in geology from the University of the Free State (UFS) in 1990. The title of the thesis was "A stratigraphic and structural investigation of part of the Namaqua mobile belt between Dabenoris and Steyerkraal, South Africa." He is a fellow of the Geological Society of London; he is also a registered Pr Sci Nat with SACNAS (South African Council for Natural Professions; registered since 1983), which qualifies him as a Competent Person and enables him to be the author of Competent Persons's Reports for evaluation and investment purposes.

Dr. Colliston is currently employed as a senior lecturer in the Geology Department of the University of the Free State in South Africa and was also an appointed Research Associate at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science, University of London. He has been involved in the study, teaching, research, application and consulting in the geological sciences for the past 24 years. He is the author of 146 scientific contributions and has addressed geological audiences at conferences both nationally and internationally. He is also on the review panel of a number of international earth science journals.

Dr. Colliston has specialised knowledge in the fields of structural, metamorphic and economic-geology, geohydrology, geological mapping, geological synthesis and in the economic evaluation of mineral projects. Research and consulting work has covered topics and areas as diverse as:

--  Gold in shear zones in County Mayo, Ireland.
--  Structural controls of petroleum basement reservoirs in northern
    Scotland and the Orkneys.
--  Regional geological surveys of the Proterozoic Namaqua Metamorphic
    Complex.
--  Base metal exploration in the Namaqua Metamorphic Complex.
--  Stratigraphic and structural controls on the Tsongoari Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag
    (Ba) deposit Kaokoland, Namibia.
--  The study of the Vredefort impact crater and the efects thereof on the
    structural and metamorphic development of the gold-bearing Witwatersrand
    Group.
--  The structural controls on fractured groundwater aquifers in the Karoo
    Supergroup and their associated hydrological characteristics.
--  The structural and stratigraphic controls on emerald deposits in
    northern Zambia.
--  The tectonic and geological controls on: (i) river systems with
    diamondiferous gravels in South Africa and (ii) diamondiferous marine
    terrace and embayments along the Skeleton Coast of Namibia.
--  The exploration for and economic evaluation of diamond deposits of
    alluvial and kimberlite origins in South Africa and Namibia.
--  Petrographic analysis of gold mineralisation in rocks from Mali, West
    African Craton.
--  The structural controls of gold mineralisation in the Cape Fold Belt.
--  Exploration for Epithermal and Shear-zone hosted gold deposits on the
    South American Amazon Craton, Brazil.
--  Environmental impact studies of alluvial diamond mining in fluvial and
    marine environments along the Namibian Skeleton Coast.
    

Dr. Colliston has consulted for a number of companies including Anglo American, Anglo Vaal, Gold Fields of SA, Randgold Exploration, Rio Tinto, Falconbridge, Billiton, Harmony Gold, KDMC Ltd, Tradeline Namibia Pty LTD, the Institute of Groundwater Studies, Water Research Commission and has research collaboration with institutes such as the Royal School of Mines, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Univ. Pretoria and Univ. Vienna.

Dr. Colliston will now be appointing additional members to the Company's Advisory Committee, and full details of all of these appointments will be announced in due course.

About West Africa Gold Inc.:

West Africa Gold (www.westafricagold.com) is an aggressive gold exploration company that has acquired certain rights to mine for minerals, primarily gold, in various regions of the Republic of Mali and now in North America.

Statements contained in this press release, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the Company's expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties beyond the Company's control, including but not limited to economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company's operations, management team effectiveness, expansion strategies, available financing, market prices and recovery costs, government regulations involving the Company, facts and events not known at the time of this release, and other factors discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.