Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, western Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia east, discontinuously, to southern Nigeria. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Vieillot's Black Weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus).
 
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Vieillot's Black Weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus).