Cameroonians in France

Cameroonians in France
Total population
(150.000)
Regions with significant populations
Île-de-France, Lille, Roubaix, Bordeaux
Languages
Fang, Ewondo, French
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam
Related ethnic groups
Black people in France, Afro-French

Cameroonians in France consist of migrants from Cameroon and their descendants living and working in France.

History

The first Cameroonian immigrants in France came in the 1970s, like the Congolese, some years after the first immigrant wave from Black Africa (Senegal Valley) in France.^[1] But this immigration has speed up in the 1980s (because of the social and economic crisis in Cameroon)^[2] to become one of the most populous group of immigrants from Black Africa in France.

Notable people

Samuel Umtiti, footballer

References

Migration to France from Africa

By ethnicity	Arabs Berbers Black Africans Jews

North Africa	Algerians Pieds-noirs Harkis Moroccans Tunisians

East Africa	Mauritians

Central Africa	Congolese Cameroonians Cape Verdeans Gabonese

West Africa	Ivoirians Ghanaians Beninese Bissau-Guineans Guineans Malians Mauritanians Senegalese Togolese

Southern Africa	Angolans Comorians Malagasy

Cameroonian diaspora

Canada France United Kingdom United States

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