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Black French people also known as French Black people or Afro-French (Afro-Français) are French people who are Sub-Saharan African (including Afro-Caribbean, Malagasy and Afro-Arabs) and Melanesian. It also includes people of mixed ancestry. The absence of a legal definition of what it means to be "black" in France, the extent of anti ...
African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in 2023 or 51% of the French-speaking population of the world [4][5][6] spread across 34 countries and territories. [Note 1] This includes those who speak French as a first or second ...
White Africans of European ancestry refers to citizens or residents in Africa who can trace full or partial ancestry to Europe. They are distinguished from indigenous North African people who are sometimes identified as white but not European. [1] In 1989, there were an estimated 4.6 million white people with European ancestry on the African ...
It was one of the most important pan-African political movements to emerge from interwar Paris. [4] A key characteristic of the LDRN is that it demanded full citizenship for all colonial subjects [5] and was funded by the French Communist Party. [6] Kouyaté took over the direction of the LDRN after the death of Senghor a year after its creation.
C. French people of Cameroonian descent (2 C, 21 P) French people of Cape Verdean descent (2 C, 9 P) French people of Central African Republic descent (2 C, 2 P) French people of Chadian descent (2 C, 5 P) French people of Comorian descent (1 C, 14 P) French people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent (2 C, 20 P ...
French West Africa. French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger. The federation existed from 1895 until 1958.
Died. 11 May 1934. (1934-05-11) (aged 61) Cambo-les-Bains, France. Nationality. Senegalese, French. Blaise Diagne (13 October 1872 – 11 May 1934) was a French political leader and mayor of Dakar. He was the first person of West African origin elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, [1] and the first to hold a position in the French government.
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]