Sudanese Canadians () include
Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...
of
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...
ese
ancestry
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or ( recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from ...
and Sudanese immigrants to Canada. They include refugees from the
Second Sudanese Civil War
The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, Sudan People's Liberation Army. It was largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil Wa ...
. The
Canada 2021 Census
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canada, Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, whic ...
recorded 17,490 people who reported their ethnicity as Sudanese.
Notable Sudanese Canadians
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Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Elamin Abdelmahmoud (born March 10, 1988) is a Canadian writer, culture and politics commentator, and broadcaster based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known as a culture writer for BuzzFeed and as a CBC Radio podcast and network radio host.
In N ...
, culture writer and commentator
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Marco Arop
Marco Arop (born September 20, 1998) is a Canadian track and field athlete competing in the middle distance events. Arop is the reigning world champion in the 800 m, winning gold at the 2023 World Athletics Championship, after winning br ...
, middle-distance runner
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Lina Hamid
Lina Hamid is a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party elected in November 2024 to represent the riding of Fairview-Clayton Park.
She is the first Sudanese Canadian to be elected into any provincial or federal positions. She was a Senior ...
, politician and member of the
Nova Scotia House of Assembly
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly (; ), or Legislative Assembly, is the deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia, and together with the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia makes up the Nova Scotia Legislature.
The assembly is ...
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Mouraine, rapper
See also
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Black Canadians
Black Canadians () are Canadians of full or partial Afro-Caribbean or sub-Saharan African descent.
Black Canadian settlement and immigration patterns can be categorized into two distinct groups. The majority of Black Canadians are descendants ...
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South Sudanese Canadians
South Sudanese Canadians are Canadians of South Sudanese ancestry, or a South Sudanese who has Canadian citizenship.
South Sudanese Canadians can also include children born in Canada to a Canadian parent and a South Sudanese parent.
South Suda ...
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Sudanese Americans
Sudanese Americans () are Americans of Sudanese ancestry or Sudanese who have American citizenship. Sudanese Americans may also include children born in the United States to an American (or to another nationality) parent and a Sudanese parent. M ...
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Sudanese Australians
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Sudanese in the United Kingdom
Sudanese in the United Kingdom (also British Sudanese) including Sudanese-born immigrants to the UK and their British-born descendants are an extremely diverse national group, especially in terms of political and religious views. It is thought ...
References
Canadian people of Sudanese descent
Sudanese emigrants to Canada
Sudanese diaspora
African diaspora in Canada
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