Afro-Russians

Photographer Liz Johnson-Artur‘s images illustrates a piece by Sarah Bentley in the latest issue of Nigerian magazine, ARISE, on Russian nationals of mixed Russian and African descent. Those profiled in the piece mostly know each from the ‘black-Russian-Ukranian-Belorussian-Kazakh’ page on Kontakt (Russia’s version of Facebook). The community numbers between 40,000-70,000. The article notes, according to Russian SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, that a total of 14 people were victims of racist and neo-Nazi attacks in January 2011, three of whom died.


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  1. What infinite beauty the mixing of ethnicity’s brings – colourising the otherwise dull world devoid of melanin …

    owen_mshengu_sharif

  2. HooDatIS? says:

    BEAUTIFUL PICTURES, I ENJOYED THIS POST, PRAY TO GOD THAT RACE REALTIONS IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD GET BETTER

  3. Sean
    i have tried emnailing you the email bounced please email me on nayanaya@mweb.co.za its xoliswa sithole and its urgent and yes great blog

  4. Leon says:

    If one hates his fellowman because of his race, color, national orgin, eye color, hair color, his height or any physical chracteristic this man has not come to know his creator Jehovah. How can one appreciate the variety in plants, animals and terrian and hate another human made by the same creator.

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