| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Craiova, Constanța, Oradea | |
| Languages | |
| Romanian language, French language, English language, Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Creole Languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Languages of Africa | |
| Religion | |
| Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam, Catholicism, Judaism, Traditional African religions, Protestantism, Jehovah's Witnesses, African diasporic religions, Atheism, Irreligion, Rastafari |
Afro-Romanians are black people and people of African descent, who have migrated to and settled in Romania. Afro-Romanian populations are mostly concentrated in major cities of Romania. [1]
Black people is a skin group-based classification used for specific people with a mid to dark brown complexion. Not all "black people" are dark skinned. However, in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western World, it is used to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned when compared to other populations. Depending on the usage, it is mostly used for the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and the indigenous peoples of Oceania, Southeast Asia and India.
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the southeast, Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi), Romania is the 12th largest country and also the 7th most populous member state of the European Union, having almost 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, and Brașov.
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Africans have been immigrating to Romania since the Communist Era. [2]
National Communism in Romania was the state ideology of Communist Romania between the early 1960s and 1989. Having its origins in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's political emancipation from the Soviet Union, it was greatly developed by Nicolae Ceaușescu, who began in 1971, through his July Theses manifesto, a national cultural revolution. Part of the national mythology was Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality and the idealization of Romanian history, known in Romanian historiography as Protochronism.
The majority of African-Romanians are not purely black, but they are of mixed ancestry. They are usually the children of a Romanian parent that mixed with a former student in Romania that came from Africa. Nicolae Ceaușescu had a plan to educate the African elites. [3] Most Africans who studied in Romania during the Ceaușescu era came from Sub-Saharan African countries such as Central African Republic, Sudan, DRC, Republic of the Congo, [4] [5] [6] [7] and other states, primarily from West Africa and Equatorial Africa, with which Ceaușescu developed close relations, [8] as well as from Maghreb (see Arabs in Romania). Since the early 60s, young people from around the world came to study in the Socialist Republic of Romania. The communist state leadership wanted to link mutual friendship with different countries. [9] Some families of African descent, who came in Romania as African slaves in the time of the Ottoman Empire, still live in the country. Most of them are Sunni Muslims.
Mulatto is a historical racial classification of people who are born of one white parent and one black parent, as well as mixed-race people in general. The term mulatto is now chiefly considered to be derogatory or offensive.
Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian communist politician and leader. He was the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989 and hence the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic until his overthrow and execution in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-Communist and anti-Soviet Union uprisings in Eastern Europe that year.
The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest and Cameroon to the west. The CAR covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi) and had an estimated population of around 4.6 million as of 2016. As of 2019, the CAR is the scene of a civil war, ongoing since 2012.
