Africans in Hong Kong

Africans in Hong Kong constitute a small number of total residents in Hong Kong.

Africans in Hong Kong
Total population
4,697 (2021[1])[2]
Regions with significant populations
Tsim Sha Tsui, Yuen Long
Languages
English, French, Portuguese, Igbo, Yoruba and other languages of Africa
Religion
Christianity, Islam
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Population

There were a total 4,697 Africans living in Hong Kong in 2021 according to the Africa Center Hong Kong. 3,545 were ordinary residents and 1,052 were non-foulement claimants. Breakdown among the ordinary residents; 1,937 male and 1,708 females. Breakdown among the non-refoulement claimants; 831 male and 221 female [1][2] The total population includes migrants from Southern Africa, who number around 200 residents and consist mainly of Africans of European origin.[3]

Africans began settling in Hong Kong in the 1990s, arrivals typically being businessmen coming to Hong Kong to engage in trading activities, or to make deals with Mainland China through a middleman. Many stayed, resulting in the majority of people of African descent currently residing in Hong Kong.

About half of the Africans in Hong Kong live in Yuen Long,[2] with another concentration in Chungking Mansions in Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui district. Some notable Africans in Hong Kong includes Innocent Mutanga, an investment banker with Goldman Sachs who came to Hong Kong with only 200 HKD and worked his way up from being homeless to becoming one of the elites in Hong Kong and also runs the Africa Center Hong Kong.[4][5] Historically, many Africans in Hong Kong were traders, dealing in mobile phones and electronic devices for export markets at shops in Chungking Mansions, but this is quickly changing as Africans choose Guangzhou's Xiaobei for this business.[6][7]

There were 492 complaints of racial discrimination against them from 2015 to 2020.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Africa Center Hong Kong – Rebranding Blackness".
  2. "Is Hong Kong racist?". South China Morning Post. 21 July 2018.
  3. Bodomo, Adams. Africans in China. Cambria Press. p. 37. ISBN 1621968189. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  4. "African banker invites Asians to change their views of black people". 27 June 2020.
  5. "【少數族裔】首位非洲難民讀中大 第一位獲得學生簽證".
  6. Mathews, Gordon; Lin, Linessa Dan; Yang, Yang (16 November 2017). The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace. ISBN 978-0226506104.
  7. "A one-stop shop in Hong Kong for African traders with China", BBC News, 11 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  8. "What it's like to be black and African in Hong Kong: 'there is racism literally in every corner'". South China Morning Post. 2 August 2020.
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