Afro-Jordanians are
Jordanians
Jordan has a population of around 11 million inhabitants as of 2021. Jordanians ( ar, أردنيون) are the citizens of Jordan. Some 95% percent of Jordanians are Arabs, while the remaining 5% are other ethnic minorities. Around 2.9 million wer ...
of
Black African
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heritage. Afro-Jordanians speak
Arabic
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and mostly adhere to
Islam
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. Most Afro-Jordanians are concentrated in the Southwest parts of
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
.
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Notable Afro-Jordanians
* Abdallah Dghemaat, lead actor in the feature film
Fish Above Sea Level
*
Rasheim Wright
Rasheim Ali Abdul Wright (born July 21, 1981) is an American-Jordanian basketball player. He is 6'4" and plays guard. In 2007, he received Jordanian citizenship. As of 2011 he played for Anibal Zahle in the Lebanese Basketball League
The Lebane ...
, American-Jordanian basketball player
*
Khalil Bani Attiah
Khalil Zaid Bani Attiah ( ar, خليل زيد بني عطية; born 8 June 1991) is a Jordanian professional footballer who plays for the Jordan national football team and for Al-Hussein.
He has a younger brother named Nour Bani Attiah, who pla ...
, Jordanian footballer
See also
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Afro-Arab
Afro-Arabs are Arabs of full or partial Black African descent. These include populations within mainly the Sudanese Arabs, Sudanese, Emiratis, Al-Akhdam, Yemenis, Afro-Saudis, Saudis, Afro-Omanis, Omanis, Sahrawis, Mauritanians, Algerians, Egyp ...
References
External links
Thaddeus Bell on Black Jordanians
{{African diaspora
Ethnic groups in Jordan
Jordanian
African diaspora in the Middle East
Ethnic groups in the Middle East