Afro-Belgian

Afro Belgians
Afrobelges
Afrobelgen
Afrobelgier

Stromae

Romelu Lukaku

Élodie Ouédraogo

Total population

(250,000-300,000 (2011) (Could be higher))

Regions with significant populations

Brussels, Liege, Antwerp, Charleroi

Languages

French, Dutch, German

Religion

Christianity and Islam

Afro Belgians (French: Afrobelges), (Dutch: Afrobelgen), (German: Afrobelgier) or Black Belgians are defined as Belgian citizens and members of the Black African community and diaspora in Belgium.

Famous Afro Belgians

Sugar Jackson - boxer
Vincent Kompany - footballer
Romelu Lukaku - footballer
D. J. Mbenga - basketball player
Élodie Ouédraogo - track athlete
Stromae - singer-songwriter

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Ethnic and national groups in Belgium

Flemish Walloons German-speaking Belgians

Africans Croats Filipinos Georgia Greeks Indians Maltese Russians Turkish Vietnamese

Bold denotes ethnic groups that (partly) originate from within contemporary and historic parts of the Belgium

African diaspora

By geography

Americas¹

Anglophone	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize British dependencies Anguilla Bermuda Cayman Islands Turks and Caicos Canada (Black Nova Scotians) Dominica Grenada Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Black Carib) Guyana Jamaica Igbo Jamaican Coromantee Jamaican Maroons Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Trinidad & Tobago (Dougla) United States African African-American Black Hispanic Black Indians in the U.S. Black Seminoles Gullah Multiracial American

Francophone	Canada (Black Nova Scotians) French Guiana Aluku Ndyuka Saramaka Haiti Marron Marabou

Hispanophone	Argentina Bolivia Colombia (Raizal) Chile Costa Rica Cuba Arará Lucumí Dominican Republic Samaná Americans Cocolo Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama (Cimarron people) Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Arará Uruguay Venezuela

Lusophone	Brazil Kalunga Quilombola

Dutchophone	Aruba Curaçao Suriname Kwinti Ndyuka Paramaccan Saramaka

Europe

Middle East

South Asia

India and Pakistan
- Karnataka
- Siddi
Sri Lanka (Kaffirs)

Atlantic

St Helena

Diaspora

Afro-American settlement in Africa: Ghana
- African-Americans
Liberia
- Afro Americans
Nigeria
- Saro
- Afro Brazilian
Sierra Leone
- Afro Americans
Ghana
- Afro Brazilians
Afro-American settlement in Europe : France
- African Americans and Haitians
United Kingdom
- British African-Caribbean people

Wide issues

¹An Afro-Latin American is any person from Latin America with origins in Africa. They can be Afro-South Americans, Afro-Central Americans, or Afro-Mexicans. An Afro-Caribbean is any person from the Caribbean with origins in Africa.

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