Afro-Romanians


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.
Africans have been immigrating to Romania since the Communist Era.
The majority of African-Romanians are of mixed ancestry. They are usually the children of a white Romanian parent and a former student in Romania who came from Africa. Nicolae Ceaușescu had a plan to educate the African elites. 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, and other states, primarily from West Africa and Equatorial Africa, with which Ceaușescu developed close relations,
as well as from Maghreb.
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.

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