Afro-Ukrainians
Afro-Ukrainians(Ukrainian:Афроукраїнці[1]) orBlack UkrainiansareUkrainiansofSub-Saharan Africandescent, including Black people who have settled inUkraine.
History
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In 2012,Gaitana,by then "the only Afro-Ukrainian celebrity in her country", represented Ukraine at theEurovision Song Contest.[2]
In 2019,Zhan Beleniukbecame the first Afro-Ukrainian member of theUkrainian Parliament.[3][4]
Nehr
[edit]The Ukrainian wordnehr(Ukrainian:негр) is widely used and is a nativizedloan wordfrom theFrench:nègre,lit. 'Negro', itself a nativized loan from theSpanish:negroand thePortuguese:negro.[5]unlikenègreis considered offensive in French,nehr/неɾрis not considered offensive. The nativeSlavicword for things that are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) ischórnyy(Ukrainian:чо́рний).
Notable Afro-Ukrainians
[edit]- Aderinsola Habib Eseola,Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Aleks Chidomere,Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Antoniy Emere,Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Berta Vázquez,Ukrainian-born Spanish actress of Ethiopian-Ukrainian descent
- Colince Ngaha Poungoue,Cameroon-born football player and manager
- Daniel Ehbudzhuo,Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Denys Ndukve,Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Dzhoan Feybi Bezhura,Ugandan-Ukrainian fencer
- Gaitana,Congolese-Ukrainian singer
- Ismail Sillakh,Sierra Leonean-Ukrainian boxer
- Issuf Sanon,Burkinabé-Ukrainian basketball player
- Joel Bolomboy,Ukrainian-born Congolese-Russian basketball player
- Mark Mampassi,Congolese-Ukrainian football player
- Myroslav Kuvaldin,Nigerian-Ukrainian reggae singer, songwriter and television presenter
- Olavale Fabunmi,Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
- Philippe Hamilton-Rollings,Ghanaian-Ukrainian football player
- Quedjau Nhabali,Bissau-Guinean-Ukrainian judoka
- Roland Bilala,Congolese-Ukrainian football player
- Şeref Osmanoğlu,Ukrainian-born Turkish athlete of Sudanese-Ukrainian descent
- Vladis-Emmerson Illoy-Ayyet,Congolese-Ukrainian football player
- Zhan Beleniuk,Rwandan-Ukrainian wrestler and politician
References
[edit]- ^In Donetsk dark-skinned asked the bad-mannered Russian to study Ukrainian language.Gazeta in Ukrainian. January 20, 2014
- ^"Ukraine's Eurovision Selection Marred by Right-Wing Racism]".Time.com.9 February 2012.Retrieved2 September2024.
- ^Штогрін, Ірина (11 June 2019)."Чи пройшла Україна" тест Чепурного ", реагуючи на першого темношкірого кандидата у депутати Жана Беленюка".Радіо Свобода(in Ukrainian).Retrieved2021-02-15.
- ^"Монобільшість Зе, бюджетні гроші для Шарія та перший темношкірий депутат. 7" вперше "виборів у Раду | Громадське телебачення".hromadske.ua(in Ukrainian). 22 July 2019.Retrieved2021-02-15.
- ^Melnychuk (2003),Etymolohichnyi slovnyk Ukraïnsʹkoï movy(Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, p 63.
External links
[edit]- Huzio, H.Gaitana: Women should be first to give freedom to feelings.Interview to "Vysokyi Zamok". Art Vertep.