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Welsh people of black African/Afro-Caribbean descent
Dame
Shirley Bassey , singer
Black Welsh people are
Welsh people who have an African, Afro-Caribbean or other
Black background. Wales is home to one of the United Kingdom's oldest black communities, and
Tiger Bay in
Cardiff has housed a large
Somali population since the development of the port in the 19th century. The 2011 census reported that there were more than 18,000 Welsh-African people in Wales (0.6% of the Welsh population).
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The first recorded black person to live in North Wales, of whom historians have detailed knowledge, was
John Ystumllyn (died 1786), a
Gwynedd gardener whose origins are unrecorded.
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Notable black Welsh people
Sports
Athletics
Rugby League
Rugby Union
Colin Charvis is the first Black Welsh person to captain the
Wales rugby team
Boxing
Music
Film and television
Others
A video of Vaughan Gething representing the First Minister in a COVID-19 press conference in January 2021
See also
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