Afro-Ukrainians

Afro-Ukrainians or Black Ukrainians (Афроукраїнці, Темношкірі Dark-skinned), are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent, including Black people who have settled in Ukraine. Black Ukrainians are multi-lingual, knowing both Russian and Ukrainian in addition to their native languages, and are aware of the cultural conflict in Ukraine between the Ukrainian and Russian languages. The population of Afro-Ukrainians is rather small and is mostly concentrated in the major cities of Ukraine, such as Kyiv.

Nehr
The Ukrainian word nehr (негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the nègre, itself a nativized loan from the negro and the negro. unlike nègre is considered offensive in French, nehr/неɾр is not considered offensive. The native Slavic word for things that are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) is chórnyy (чо́рний).

Notable Afro-Ukrainians

 * Aderinsola Habib Eseola, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
 * Aleks Chidomere, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
 * Antoniy Emere, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
 * Berta Vázquez, Ukrainian-born Spanish actress of Ethiopian-Ukrainian descent
 * Colince Ngaha Poungoue, Cameroon-born football player and manager
 * Daniel Ehbudzhuo, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
 * Denys Ndukve, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
 * Dzhoan Feybi Bezhura, Ugandan-Ukrainian fencer
 * Gaitana, Congolese-Ukrainian singer
 * Ismail Sillakh, Sierra Leonean-Ukrainian boxer
 * Issuf Sanon, Burkinabé-Ukrainian basketball player
 * Joel Bolomboy, Ukrainian-born Congolese-Russian basketball player
 * Mark Mampassi, Congolese-Ukrainian football player
 * Myroslav Kuvaldin, Nigerian-Ukrainian reggae singer, songwriter and television presenter
 * Olavale Fabunmi, Nigerian-Ukrainian football player
 * Philippe Hamilton-Rollings, Ghanaian-Ukrainian football player
 * Quedjau Nhabali, Bissau-Guinean-Ukrainian judoka
 * Roland Bilala, Congolese-Ukrainian football player
 * Şeref Osmanoğlu, Ukrainian-born Turkish athlete of Sudanese-Ukrainian descent
 * Vladis-Emmerson Illoy-Ayyet, Congolese-Ukrainian football player
 * Zhan Beleniuk, Rwandan-Ukrainian wrestler and politician