Gabonese people in France

Gabonese French
Total population
(20.000)
Regions with significant populations
Île-de-France, Strasbourg
Languages
Fang, French
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Black people in France, Afro-French

Gabonese people in France consist of migrants from Gabon and their descendants living and working in France.

History

The first Gabonese immigrants in France came in the 1970s, like the other immigrants from Central Africa, some years after the first immigrant wave from Black Africa (Senegal Valley) in France.^[1] There are more immigrants in France from countries which neighbor Gabon (DR Congo, Congo and Cameroon).

References

↑ "L‘immigration africaine en France : regards des autres et repli sur soi" (PDF). Politique-africaine.com. Retrieved 2016-02-08.

Migration to France from Africa

By ethnicity	Arabs Berbers Black Africans Jews

North Africa	Algerians Pieds-noirs Harkis Moroccans Tunisians

East Africa	Mauritians

Central Africa	Congolese Cameroonians Cape Verdeans Gabonese

West Africa	Ivoirians Ghanaians Beninese Bissau-Guineans Guineans Malians Mauritanians Senegalese Togolese

Southern Africa	Angolans Comorians Malagasy

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