Afro-Ukrainians Explained

Afro-Ukrainians(uk|Афроукраїнці^[1]) or Black Ukrainians are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent, including Black people who have settled in Ukraine.

History

In 2012, Gaitana, by then "the only Afro-Ukrainian celebrity in her country", represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest.^[2]

In 2019, Zhan Beleniuk became the first Afro-Ukrainian member of the Ukrainian Parliament.^{[3] [4]}

Nehr

The Ukrainian word nehr (uk|негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the fr|[[:wikt:nègre#French|nègre]]||[[Negro]], itself a nativized loan from the es|negro and the pt|negro.^[5] Althoughnègre 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 (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
• Dzhoan Feybi Bezhura, Ugandan-Ukrainian fencer
• 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
• Myroslav Kuvaldin, Nigerian-Ukrainian reggae singer, songwriter and television presenter
• 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

External links

• Huzio, H. Gaitana: Women should be first to give freedom to feelings. Interview to "Vysokyi Zamok". Art Vertep.

Notes and References

1. http://gazeta.ua/articles/sogodennya/_v-donecku-temnoshkiri-prosili-matyuklivu-rosiyanku-vchiti-ukrayinsku-movu/537204 In Donetsk dark-skinned asked the bad-mannered Russian to study Ukrainian language
2. Web site: Ukraine’s Eurovision Selection Marred by Right-Wing Racism]. Time.com. 9 February 2012. 2 September 2024.
3. News: Чи пройшла Україна "тест Чепурного", реагуючи на першого темношкірого кандидата у депутати Жана Беленюка . 2021-02-15 . Радіо Свобода . 11 June 2019 . uk . Штогрін . Ірина.
4. Web site: Монобільшість Зе, бюджетні гроші для Шарія та перший темношкірий депутат. 7 "вперше" виборів у Раду Громадське телебачення. 2021-02-15. hromadske.ua. 22 July 2019 . uk.
5. Melnychuk (2003), Etymolohichnyi slovnyk Ukraïnsʹkoï movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, p 63.