Afro-Romanians

Afro-Romanians are citizens or residents of Romania who are of African descent. Afro-Romanian populations are mostly concentrated in major cities of Romania.[1] Africans have been immigrating to Romania since the Communist Era.[2]

Afro-Romanians
Regions with significant populations
Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Craiova, Constanța, Oradea
Languages
Romanian language, French language, English language, Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Creole Languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Languages of Africa
Religion
Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam, Catholicism, Judaism, Traditional African religions, Protestantism, Jehovah's Witnesses, African diasporic religions, Atheism, Irreligion, Rastafari

The majority of African-Romanians are of mixed ancestry, usually being the children of a Romanian parent and an African student who came to Romania. Nicolae Ceaușescu had a plan to educate the African elites.[3] Most Africans who studied in Romania during the Ceaușescu era came from Sub-Saharan African countries such as Central African Republic, Sudan, DRC, Republic of the Congo,[4][5][6][7] and other states, primarily from West Africa and Equatorial Africa, with which Ceaușescu developed close relations,[8] as well as from Maghreb (see Arabs in Romania). Since the early 60s, young people from around the world came to study in the Socialist Republic of Romania. The communist state leadership wanted to link mutual friendship with different countries.[9]

After the fall of the communism, the numbers of Afro-Romanians increased.[10][11]

Areas

In Bucharest, although Afro-Romanians live in all parts of the city, most of them are concentrated in the Giurgiului and Baicului areas.[12][13]

Notable individuals

Fashion designers

Modelling

Music

Politicians

Sports

Television

References
  1. "Studenţi străini în România" (in Romanian). Jurnalul Național. 22 May 2009. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  2. "Epoca de Aur a prieteniei româno-arabe: Câți bani avea de recuperat Ceaușescu din Orientul Mijlociu" (in Romanian). Adevărul Financiar. 25 September 2015. Archived from the original on 23 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  3. "Republica Africa Centrală, la picioarele lui Ceauşescu" (in Romanian). Adevărul. 22 February 2013.
  4. "Republica Africa Centrală, la picioarele lui Ceauşescu".
  5. "Cum i-a vândut Ceauşescu lui Mobutu Sésé Seko tractoare şi televizoare româneşti".
  6. "Studenţi străini în România".
  7. "Povestea africanilor care spun Romania, te iubesc" (in Romanian). Stirileprotv.ro. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  8. https://old.upm.ro/cci/CCI-04/Spi/Spi%2004%2018.pdf
  9. "Romania din Sudan. Africanii care vorbesc, iubesc si simt romaneste" (in Romanian). Stirileprotv.ro. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  10. "African Pastor Lifts Migrants' Spirits in Romania". 3 December 2019.
  11. "In Romania, Congolese refugee does as the Romanians do".
  12. file:///C:/Users/Edi/Downloads/GlobalizationandNewethnicminoritiesinRomania.pdf
  13. "Fig. 4 New ethnic minorities in Bucharest A. Agglomerations of: 1".
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