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Afro-Ukrainians or Black Ukrainians ( uk, Афроукраїнці, uk, Темношкірі ''Dark-skinned''), are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan Africa, 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 language, 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'' ( uk, негр) is widely used and is a nativized loanword, loan word from the french: :wikt:nègre#French, nègre, , Negro, itself a nativized loan, into French, from the es, negro and the pt, negro.Melnychuk (2003), ''Etymolohichnyi slovnyk Ukraïnsʹkoï movy'' (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, p 63. While in modern French, ''nègre'' is considered offensive, same as ''nehr''/''неɾр'' in Ukrainian language (as ''negro'' is in Spanish and Portuguese). The native Slavic languages, Slavic words for things that are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) are ''chórnyy'' ( uk, 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 * Gaitana (singer), 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 * 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. {{portal bar, Ukraine, Africa African diaspora in Europe People of African descent, Ukrainian Ethnic groups in Ukraine Ukrainian people of African descent,