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Africans in Hong Kong constitute a small number of total residents in
Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
.


Population

There were 3,144 Africans living in Hong Kong in 2016 according to the Africa Center Hong Kong, 2,012 male and 1,132 females. This includes migrants from
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, who number around 200 residents and consist mainly of Africans of European origin. Africans began settling in Hong Kong in the 1990s, arrivals typically being
businessmen A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the ...
coming to Hong Kong to engage in trading activities, or to make deals with
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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
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, with another concentration in
Chungking Mansions Chungking Mansions is a building located at 36–44 Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Though the building was supposed to be residential, it is made up of many independent low-budget hotels, shops and other services. As well ...
in Kowloon's
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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. 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. There were 492 complaints of
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against them from 2015 to 2020.


See also

* Africans in Guangzhou * Nigerians in China


References

{{Hong Kongers African diaspora in Hong Kong Ethnic groups in Hong Kong African diaspora in Asia African diaspora in China