African Chinese are an ethnic group of Chinese with partial or total ancestry from any of the ethnic groups of Africa.
By 2020, there were an estimated 500,000 Africans living in China, with the majority residing in Guangzhou.
Education in China
Development Reimagined reports that China hosted 74,011 students from 24 African countries in 2017, thanks to overall growth of 258% from 2011–2017. By 2017, the top African student population were from
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
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Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...
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Kenya
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Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
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In 2018, the Chinese government announced at the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation that China would increase its scholarship offerings to African students from 30,000 in 2015 to 50,000. According to the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 81,562 African students studied in China in 2018, a 770% increase compared to 1996. China is now the second-largest African student-hosting country, behind
France
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In 2020, according to UNESCO’s Global Annual Education Report, China offered 12,000 university scholarships to African students for the next academic year, to support their studies at Chinese universities.
By 2022, China is predicted to host more Nigerians than either the
UK or the
US.
Notable people
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Godfred Karikari
Godfred Karikari (; born 11 March 1985) is a former professional footballer. Born in Ghana, he represented Hong Kong at international level.
Early life
Karikari was born to an affluent family in Ghana. He was a fast runner in his youth and was ...
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Lou Jing
Lou Jing (born 1989) is a Chinese talent show contestant from Shanghai. She was born to a Chinese mother and an African American father, who left China before she was born and has lost contact ever since. Her mother raised her as a single moth ...
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Eddy Francis
Eddy Juan Francis, Aidi Fulangxisi (; born 17 December 1990, in Shanghai) or simply Aidi, is a Chinese professional footballer who currently plays for Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua.
Club career
Aidi's mother is Chinese Hakka and his f ...
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Ding Hui
See also
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Africans in Guangzhou
Africans in Guangzhou (, more colloquially ) are African immigrants and African Chinese residents of Guangzhou, China.
Beginning during the late 1990s economic boom, an influx of thousands of African traders and business people, predominantly ...
References
Ethnic groups in China
African diaspora in China
People of African descent
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