Black Greeks

This article is about citizens or residents of Greece with African heritage. For ethnic Greek people in Africa, see African Greeks. For Black people in Greek life at universities in North America, see List of African-American fraternities. For Classicists in the Caribbean, see Caribbean literature.

Black Greeks

Αφροέλληνες
Languages
Greek
Religion
predominantly Christianity; minority Islam
Related ethnic groups
African Greeks

Black Greeks, also known as Afro-Greeks (Greek: Αφροέλληνες),^[1] are Black people who are citizens or residents of Greece.

African immigrants in Modern Greece

Some families of African descent mainly from Sudan were brought to modern-day Greece by the Ottoman Turks, and still live in the village of Avato. They are now Sunni Muslims. Some of them lived before the population exchange between Greece and Turkey also on the island of Crete.^[2][3]

A number of African immigrants first arrived in Greece in 1997, though most came during the 2000s. The majority immigrated from Nigeria and Senegal; others came from the Congo, Ghana, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, Mauritius and Angola. The largest communities live in the Patissia and Kypseli districts of Athens.^[4]

The South African Embassy in Athens and the Consulate General of South Africa in Thessaloniki, maintains and develops relations between the South Africa and Greece. Embassy of Nigeria in Athens as well and Embassy of Greece in Abuja in Nigeria. Ugandan Consulate in Athens, Embassy of Sudan in Athens, Consulate of Ghana in Athens, Greek Embassy in Democratic Republic of Congo, Consulate General of Ethiopia in Athens, Embassy of Angola in Athens, Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Kenya in the Hellenic Republic.^{[citation needed]}

According to the 2011 Census data from the National Statistical Service of Greece, the recent African arrivals to Greece include Guinean, Senegalese and Somalian males mostly under the age of 25. The older African immigrants are made up of Ethiopians, Nigerians, Ghanaians and Congolese.^[5]

Notable Afro-Greeks

Sport

• Giannis Antetokounmpo - NBA basketball player
• Thanasis Antetokounmpo - NBA basketball player
• Kostas Antetokounmpo - NBA basketball player
• Alex Antetokounmpo - basketball player
• Daniel Batista Lima – footballer
• Tyler Dorsey – American-Greek basketball player
• Konstadinos Douvalidis – hurdler
• Christopher Duberet – footballer
• Etinosa Erevbenagie - basketball player
• Kostas Ezomo - basketball player
• Yvette Jarvis - basketball player, model, actress
• Emmanouil Karalis – pole vaulter
• Nestoras Kommatos – basketball player
• Valentino Lazaro - Austrian footballer
• Markos Maragoudakis - footballer
• Nery Mantey Niangkouara – swimmer
• Alfa Ntiallo - basketball player
• Marios Ogkmpoe - footballer
• Sofoklis Schortsanitis – basketball player
• Andrews Tetteh- football player

Entertainment

• Isaias Matiaba – singer
• Jerome Kaluta – singer, actor
• MC Yinka – singer, actor
• Light - singer, rapper
• Black Morris aka Negros to Moria – singer
• Samuel Akinola – actor
• Idra Kayne – singer
• Stefan Mwange – actor
• Ksenia Dania – singer, actress
• Deborah Odong – actress
• Niki Sereti – actress
• Marina Satti - singer, actress, musician, song writer
• Theodora Rasel - model

References

1. "9 ΑΦΡΟΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΣΥΖΗΤΟΥΝ: ΤΙ ΣΗΜΑΙΝΕΙ "ΔΕΝ ΜΠΟΡΩ ΝΑ ΑΝΑΠΝΕΥΣΩ" ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ;" [9 Afrogreeks discuss: what does "I can't breathe" mean in Greece?]. www.onassis.org. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
2. Kenya-Crète-Istanbul: Biographie d'une famille d'esclaves, Paris, Librairie Özgül, 2006 ISBN 978-2-910901-02-8
3. Spyropoulos Yannis, Slaves and freedmen in 17th- and early 18th-century Ottoman Crete, Turcica, 46, 2015, p. 181, 182.
4. "Main ethnic groups of immigrants in Greece". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
5. Migrants Unbound - Page 21

External links

• Immigration to Greece