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The Colombian government has tried to help the Afro-Colombian people by creating more programs to further the education of Afro-Colombians past high school. The main program is the "Admisión Especial a Mejores Bachilleres de la Población Negra, Afrocolombiana, Palenquera y Raizal" which gives admission to about 200 Afro-Colombians per ...
Afro-Colombians are entitled to all constitutional rights and protections, but they continue to face significant economic and social discrimination. According to the 2005 census, an estimated 74 percent of Afro-Colombians earned less than the minimum wage. Chocó, the department with the highest percentage of Afro-Colombian residents, had the ...
Afro-Colombian Day, [1] or Día de la Afrocolombianidad is an annual commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Colombia on May 21, 1851. May 21 is also the day of the first established free town in the Americas, Palenque de San Basilio. Afro-Colombian Day was first celebrated in 2001. [2]
Mestizo and White (87.6%), Afro-Colombians (6.8%), Native Colombians (4.4%) (2018 census) [3] By ethnic estimation Mestizos (47.4%), Whites (25.3%), Afro-Colombians (14.3%), Native Colombians (10.4%), Other (2.7%) (2018 estimate) [14] Comoros: By ethnicity Comorians (97.1%, Mixture of Bantu, Malagasy and Arabs), Makua (1.6%), other (1.3%) (2000 ...
For most Colombians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Colombian. Colombia is considered to be one of the most multiethnic societies in the world, home to people of various ethnic, religious and national origins. Many Colombians have varying degrees of European, Indigenous and African ...
Most of Colombia's population identifies racially as either "mestizo" (a mix of European and Native heritage) or Afro-Colombian (of African and either European or Native descent). Roughly seventy-five percent of Colombians claim to be of mixed heritage, while whites make up approximately twenty percent, with the rest of the makeup being four ...
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