Afro-Romanian

Afro-Romanians
Total population
103.000
Regions with significant populations
Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Craiova
Languages
Romanian language, French language
Religion
Predominantly Eastern Orthodoxy

Afro-Romanians are Black people, those people of African descent, who have migrated to and settled in Romania. Population of Afro-Romanians is rather insignificant and mostly concentrated in major cities of Romania.[1]

Africans have been immigrating to Romania since the Communist Era.[2]

The majority of African-Romanians are not purely black, but they are mulattoes. They are usually the children of a Romanian parent that mixed with a former student in Romania that came from Africa. Nicolae Ceaușescu had a plan to educate the African elites.[3] Over 10,000 Sudanese studied in Romania for example before 1990.[4] 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.[5]

Notable individuals

Fashion designers

Modelling

Music

Politicians

Sports

Television

References

  1. ↑ "Studenţi străini în România" (in Romanian). Jurnalul Național. 22 May 2009.
  2. ↑ "Epoca de Aur a prieteniei româno-arabe: Câți bani avea de recuperat Ceaușescu din Orientul Mijlociu" (in Romanian). Adevărul Financiar. 25 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Republica Africa Centrală, la picioarele lui Ceauşescu" (in Romanian). Adevărul. 22 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Povestea africanilor care spun Romania, te iubesc" (in Romanian). Stirileprotv.ro. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Romania din Sudan. Africanii care vorbesc, iubesc si simt romaneste" (in Romanian). Stirileprotv.ro. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
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