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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.
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.
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
Most have roots in the former Belgian colonies of the Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi as well as other French-speaking African countries. This is an estimate, likely a slight overestimate (error: ± 25,000). Denmark: 52,795 [6] 0.9% 2019 Sub-Saharan Africans and their descendants, alongside any by racial or mixed race of African heritage are counted.
The Paris metropolitan area has a community of origins from Sub-Saharan Africa. There were 54,000 persons of African nationalities, excluding Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, according to the 2009 French census. Countries of origin in sub-Saharan Africa include Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea,Cameroon, Mali, and Senegal ...
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, 16 P)
African diaspora in France (8 C, 25 P) Arabs in France (7 C, 9 P) B. French-Basque people (3 C, 85 P) ... French people; A. African Americans in France; Albanians in ...
The Canadian province of Quebec (2006 census population of 7,546,131), where more than 95 percent of the people speak French as either their first, second or even third language, is the center of French life on the Western side of the Atlantic; however, French settlement began further east, in Acadia. Quebec is home to vibrant French-language ...