Afro-Ukrainians

Afro-Ukrainians or Black Ukrainians (Ukrainian: Афроукраїнці, Ukrainian: Темношкірі Dark-skinned), are Ukrainians of 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 and Russian languages.[1][2][3] The population of Afro-Ukrainians is rather small and is mostly concentrated in the major cities of Ukraine.

Afro-Ukrainians
Regions with significant populations
Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa
Languages
Ukrainian · Russian · Igbo · English · French various Languages of South Africa (country)
Religion
Christianity, Islam, others
Gaitana
Zhan Beleniuk, left, member of the Ukrainian Parliament with Ukrainian President, right, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Okurut Steven, lead vocalist of Band Chornobryvtsi

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, into French, from the Spanish: negro and the Portuguese: negro.[4] While in modern French, nègre is considered offensive, nehr/неɾр is considered a neutral term in the Ukrainian and Russian languages (as negro is in Spanish and Portuguese). The native Slavic words for things which are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) are chórnyy (Ukrainian: чо́рний) and compare chórnyy (Russian: чёрный), Russian being also extremely widely spoken in Ukraine.

Prominent Afro-Ukrainians
  • Zhan Beleniuk - Politician and Ukrainian Olympic Gold Medallist in Greco-Roman wrestling
(First Afro-Ukrainian member of the Ukrainian Parliament)
(The name of the band meaning Marigold in Ukrainian)
Her name pronounced Haitana in Ukrainian and Gaitana in Russian

References
  1. Afro-Ukrainians in Donetsk Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine. comments.ua. January 20, 2014
  2. Lessons in Ukrainian. politiko.
  3. In Donetsk dark-skinned asked the bad-mannered Russian to study Ukrainian language. Gazeta in Ukrainian. January 20, 2014
  4. Melnychuk (2003), Etymolohichnyi slovnyk Ukraïnsʹkoï movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, p 63.
  5. Palmero, María (16 February 2015). "Antena 3 ficha a la novia de Mario Casas para hacer de lesbiana en 'Vis a Vis'". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Titania Compañía Editorial, S. L. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  6. Odessa Afro-Ukrainians tasted the Transcarpathian Hutsul bryndza Archived February 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Mukachevo portal. September 19, 2006
  7. Let's pass to each other a joy Archived 2014-02-22 at the Wayback Machine. Black Sea News. April 13, 2013
  8. Pop Notes: "Orange" groups top local charts. Kyiv Post. December 15, 2004
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