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A man from Labé, Guinea, speaking Pular and West African French. African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 320 million people in Africa in 2023 or 67% of the French-speaking population of the world [1] [2] [3] spread across 34 countries and territories.
He was the first person of West African origin elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, [12]: 111 and the first to hold a position in the French government. Ngalandou Diouf, elected in 1909 to represent the commune of Rufisque at the advisory General Assembly (Conseil Général) of Saint-Louis, then capital of colonial Senegal.
[20]: 512 Following the French and British Isles origin groups, Continental European communities were the largest in Canada, and grew fairly rapidly between the 1901 census and the 1921 census. [ 20 ] : 512 Nominally small East Asian , South Asian , West Asian , and West African descended communities also existed during this time period.
African immigration to Canada comprises citizens of countries in Africa who emigrated to Canada, as well as their descendants. According to Statistics Canada, African-born individuals comprised 13.4% of recent immigrants to Canada as of 2016. This was the second largest number of recent immigrants to the nation after Europe, and a four-fold ...
Thus, in 2001, 90 per cent of Canadians of Haitian origin lived in Quebec, [99] while 85 per cent of Canadians of Jamaican origin lived in Ontario. [100] A major change in the settlement patterns of black Canadians occurred in the second half of the 20th century as the mostly rural black Canadian communities had become mostly urban communities ...
French is an administrative language and is commonly but unofficially used in the Maghreb states, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.As of 2023, an estimated 350 million African people spread across 34 African countries can speak French either as a first or second language, mostly as a secondary language, making Africa the continent with the most French speakers in the world. [2]
The term Franco-Ontarian has two related usages, which overlap closely but are not identical: it may refer to francophone residents of Ontario, regardless of their ethnicity or place of birth, or to people of French Canadian ancestry born in Ontario, regardless of their primary language or current place of residence.
By the end of French rule in the early 1960s there were over one million European Algerians, mostly of French origin and Catholic [89] (known as pieds noirs, or "black feet"), living in Algeria, consisting about 16% of the population in 1962. [90] There were 255,000 Europeans in Tunisia in 1956, [91] while Morocco was home to half a million ...