Afro-Ukrainians

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. The population of Afro-Ukrainians is rather small and is mostly concentrated in the major cities of Ukraine, such as Kyiv.

History

Nehr

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. 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

• 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

External links

• 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.