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The Sri Lankan Kaffirs (cafrinhas in Portuguese, කාපිරි kāpiriyō in Sinhala, and காப்பிலி kāppili in Tamil) are an ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are partially descended from 16th-century Portuguese traders and Bantu slaves who were brought by them to work as labourers and soldiers [2] to fight against the Sinhala kings.
African Sri Lankans, mainly the Sri Lanka Kaffirs, are a very small Ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are descendants of African mercenaries, musicians, and labourers taken to what is now Sri Lanka by Portuguese colonists during the period of Portuguese colonial rule on the island. [3] There are currently around 1,000 African Sri Lankans.
Sri Lanka Kaffirs Burgher people , also known simply as Burghers , are a small Eurasian ethnic group in Sri Lanka descended from Portuguese , Dutch , British [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and other Europeans who settled in Ceylon. [ 4 ]
Kaffirs in Sri Lanka: Descendants of enslaved Africans; The transcripts of the Human Rights Violations Hearings & Submissions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission contains a large number of references to the use of the word kaffir during the South African Apartheid era.
In today's Sri Lanka, the Creole is limited to the spoken form. Most of the speakers are the Burghers in the Eastern province (Batticaloa and Trincomalee). But there are also the Kaffirs (people of African origin) in the Northwestern province . The Portuguese, Dutch and British brought the Kaffirs to Sri Lanka, for labour purposes.
Afro-Asians (or African Asians) are African communities that have been living in the Indian subcontinent for centuries and have settled in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This includes the Siddis (who have been in India and Pakistan for over a thousand years) and Kaffirs in Sri Lanka.
What’s inside the Dubai chocolate bar?. The candy bar is inspired by knafeh: a Middle Eastern dessert made with kataifi (a shredded phyllo pastry), attar (a sweet, sugary syrup) and then layers ...
Sellankandal is a village situated 10 km inland from coastal Puttalam city in the North Western Province of Sri Lanka.It is the primary settlement of people of Black African descent in Sri Lanka called Kaffirs who until the 1930s spoke a Creole version of Portuguese.