Afro-Ukrainians

Afro-Ukrainians (Ukrainian: Афроукраїнці, romanized: Afroukraintsi[1]) or Black Ukrainians are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent, including Black people who have settled in Ukraine.

History

Ukrainian athlete Joan Fabi Bejura
Zhan Beleniuk

In 2005, Mamadi Sangare became the first football player outside the post Soviet territory to accept the Ukrainian citizenship.[2]

In 2012, Gaitana, by then "the only Afro-Ukrainian celebrity in her country", represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest.[3]

In 2019, Zhan Beleniuk became the first Afro-Ukrainian member of the Ukrainian Parliament.[4][5]

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.[6] Although 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).

Population

The African Council estimates that 30,000 Africans live in Ukraine.[7]

Notable Afro-Ukrainians

See also

References

  1. ↑ "В Донецьку темношкірі просили матюкливу росіянку вчити українську мову" [In Donetsk dark-skinned asked the bad-mannered Russian to study Ukrainian language]. Gazeta (in Ukrainian). 20 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Сангаре Мамади". footballfacts.ru. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Adams, William Lee (9 February 2012). "Ukraine's Eurovision Selection Marred by Right-Wing Racism". Time. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  4. ↑ Штогрін, Ірина (11 June 2019). "Чи пройшла Україна "тест Чепурного", реагуючи на першого темношкірого кандидата у депутати Жана Беленюка". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Монобільшість Зе, бюджетні гроші для Шарія та перший темношкірий депутат. 7 "вперше" виборів у Раду | Громадське телебачення". hromadske.ua (in Ukrainian). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  6. ↑ Melnychuk (2003), Etymolohichnyi slovnyk Ukraïnsʹkoï movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, p 63.
  7. ↑ "«Африканська Рада в Україні»: розвиваємо діалог культур .: Ресурсний центр ГУРТ". gurt.org.ua. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
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