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Afro-Ukrainians or Black Ukrainians (Ukrainian: Афроукраїнці, Ukrainian: Темношкірі Dark-skinned), are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent, including Black people who have settled in Ukraine. Black Ukrainians are multi-lingual, knowing both Russian and Ukrainian in addition to their native languages, and are aware of the cultural conflict in Ukraine between the Ukrainian and Russian languages.[1][2][3] The population of Afro-Ukrainians is rather small and is mostly concentrated in the major cities of Ukraine, such as Kyiv.
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa | |
| Languages | |
| Ukrainian · Russian · Igbo · English · French various Languages of South Africa (country) | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Islam, others |
History edit
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Nehr edit
The Ukrainian word nehr (Ukrainian: негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the French: nègre, lit. 'Negro', itself a nativized loan from the Spanish: negro and the Portuguese: negro.[4] unlike nègre is considered offensive in French, nehr/неɾр is not considered offensive. The native Slavic word for things that are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) is chórnyy (Ukrainian: чо́рний).
Notable Afro-Ukrainians edit
- Aderinsola Habib Eseola, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Aleks Chidomere, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Antoniy Emere, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Berta Vázquez, Ukrainian-born Spanish actress of Ethiopian-Ukrainian descent
- Colince Ngaha Poungoue, Cameroon-born football player and manager
- Daniel Ehbudzhuo, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Denys Ndukve, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Dzhoan Feybi Bezhura, Ugandan-Ukrainian fencer
- Gaitana, Congolese-Ukrainian singer
- Ismail Sillakh, Sierra Leonean-Ukrainian boxer
- Issuf Sanon, Burkinabé-Ukrainian basketball player
- Joel Bolomboy, Ukrainian-born Congolese-Russian basketball player
- Mark Mampassi, Congolese-Ukrainian football player
- Myroslav Kuvaldin, Nigerian-Ukrainian reggae singer, songwriter and television presenter
- Olavale Fabunmi, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Philippe Hamilton-Rollings, Ghanaian-Ukrainian football player
- Quedjau Nhabali, Bissau-Guinean-Ukrainian judoka
- Roland Bilala, Congolese-Ukrainian football player
- Şeref Osmanoğlu, Ukrainian-born Turkish athlete of Sudanese-Ukrainian descent
- Vladis-Emmerson Illoy-Ayyet, Congolese-Ukrainian football player
- Zhan Beleniuk, Rwandan-Ukrainian wrestler and politician
References edit
- ^ Afro-Ukrainians in Donetsk Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine. comments.ua. January 20, 2014
- ^ Lessons in Ukrainian. politiko.
- ^ In Donetsk dark-skinned asked the bad-mannered Russian to study Ukrainian language. Gazeta in Ukrainian. January 20, 2014
- ^ Melnychuk (2003), Etymolohichnyi slovnyk Ukraïnsʹkoï movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, p 63.
External links edit
- Chornobrivci website
- How do in general Afro-Ukrainians live?, a blog of the Ukrainian born Mozambique national Dmytro Yatsiuk
- Orange Mozambique. Vakhtang Kipiani website.
- Huzio, H. Gaitana: Women should be first to give freedom to feelings. Interview to "Vysokyi Zamok". Art Vertep.
