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According to the latest data, the number of African immigrants in the United States has already surpassed that of 2017, with the immigrant population increasing from about 2.1 million to more than 2.4 million. [25] The trend that African immigrants mainly come from West Africa and East Africa remains unchanged.
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Pages in category "South African emigrants to the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 221 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
African immigrants are among the most educated groups in the United States. Like their recent immigrant counterparts Kenyan Americans give a high value to education. [3] According to estimates from the Migration Policy Institute for 2015 to 2019, the total number of immigrants from Kenya in the United States was 141,800. [4]
Most of the early immigrants from Ghana to the United States were students who came to get a better education and planned on using the education acquired in the United States to better Ghana. [7] However, many Ghanaians that migrated in the 1980s and 1990s, came to get business opportunities.
These African "captures" arrived in what would be the United States and were sold in Virginia, which had 60% of the slaves of the eastern region of the future United States. 34% of the Africans arriving in Virginia came from the Bight of Biafra. Virginia and surrounding colonies held 30,000 slaves hailing from the Bight.
The Great Migration throughout the 20th century (starting from World War I) [5] [6] resulted in more than six million African Americans leaving the Southern U.S. (especially rural areas) and moving to other parts of the United States (especially to urban areas) due to the greater economic/job opportunities, less anti-black violence/lynchings ...
Like other African groups, the first Ivorians to arrive in the United States were imported as slaves in the 18th century. [3] In the 1970s a small group of Ivorian students came to the United States and then lived there permanently. A larger wave of migration of Ivorians happened in the 1990s.