Black Welsh people

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Dame Shirley Bassey, singer

Black Welsh people are Welsh people who have an African, Afro-Caribbean or other Black background. Wales is home to one of the United Kingdom's oldest black communities, and Tiger Bay in Cardiff has housed a large Somali population since the development of the port in the 19th century. The 2011 census reported that there were more than 18,000 Welsh-African people in Wales (0.6% of the Welsh population). [1]

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The first recorded black person to live in North Wales, of whom historians have detailed knowledge, was John Ystumllyn (died 1786), a Gwynedd gardener whose origins are unrecorded. [2]

Notable black Welsh people

Sports

Association football

Athletics

Rugby League

Rugby Union

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Colin Charvis is the first Black Welsh person to captain the Wales rugby team

Boxing

Music

Film and television

Others

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