BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRO-ITALIANS - AFRICAN EMIGRANTS TO ITALY, THESE ARE RESIDENT WHO ORIGINALLY CAME FROM AFRICA :

                        BLACK                     SOCIAL                 HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                             African emigrants to Italy include Italian citizens and residents originally from Africa. Immigrants from Africa officially residing in Italy in 2010 numbered about 1,000,000 residents.^[1]

Distribution

North and North East Africans

The largest group of immigrants from Africa are from North Africa, numbering about 647,000 official residents in 2010.^[2] By country of origin, most of these recent arrivals are from Morocco (452,424), Tunisia (106,291), Egypt (90,365) and Algeria (25,935). Italy also has a number of immigrants from Libya (1,468), Somalia (8,112), Eritrea (13,368) and Ethiopia (8,593), territories where Italian expatriates had a presence during the colonial period.

West and Central Africans

Compared to North and Northeast Africans, the percentage of West and Central Africans as a proportion of immigrants to Italy from Africa is 30.6% (approximately 337,000 residents).^[3]

West Africans represent the majority of Sub-Saharan Africans in Italy, who number around 337,000.^[4] Most come from Senegal(80,989), Nigeria (53,613) and Ghana (46,890).