My friend came back from Paris and said the black Paris parts are lit.

[CashmereThoughts]

Anybody can confirm this? She said the black life in Paris is more lit than London and she said she had some bomb ass Gumbo and chicken and waffles there too

im going a week from today. I seen they have popular American soul food spots too. I got reservations at this African spot O'MAKI / Restaurant Afro Antillais / PARIS

 

[mbewane]

Do alot of Haitians live in france?

Anyway was always told black people who live in France live in extreme poverty. Never been there though.

Not as many as one may think due to history, or precisely because of it, go figure. I think as a group Haitians have more moved to other countries in the Americas, mainly Canada (iirc they're deep in Montréal) and the US. I don't think there's ever been a massive migration of Haitians, the few that I've met all seem to be students/writers/etc who move here for a couple years as opposed to other groups who have been here for various generations. When you talk about african immigration you're already on the 3rd or sometimes even 4th generation.

Extreme poverty it depends, you also have significants parts of the Black population that are doing just fine. Buying houses, having businesses, travelling, just living an old regular life. Obviously it's not all good as structural discrimination is very much present at all levels and indeed if you go to the worst areas you're likely to see black people over-represented.

For obvious historical reasons there's a long-standing Black presence in France and particularly in Paris, going back to students coming from the colonies pre 1960 (the Césaire, Senghor, Nardal etc generation that created the whole Négritude movement...that's when Baldwin and other Black Americans were coming over here too) then with the more massive immigration for work and now the children (and grand-children) of those who migrated here long-term. So yeah naturally a "Black Paris" has emerged, not necessarily a specific place (even though you indeed have the Chateau d'Eau area) but also with all kinds of cultural events, restaurants, bookstores, all kinds of collectives organizing movie festivals, art exhibitions, conferences, parties, etc. I'm not really into the "real" club scene but you've got all that too. If you go outside of Paris you'll find some cités with a more Black presence but tbh I haven't been in years. And then you have more regular middle-class banlieues with black people, just because it's way cheaper than living inside Paris.

 

[mbewane]

im going a week from today. I seen they have popular American soul food spots too. I got reservations at this African spot O'MAKI / Restaurant Afro Antillais / PARIS

Try to do this tour : Le Paris Noir

I'm surprised his site isn't in english too, but just click on "Demande de réservation" and send him an email (he speaks english too). I don't know how often he does tours in english but it's worth asking.

 

[the bossman]

im going a week from today. I seen they have popular American soul food spots too. I got reservations at this African spot O'MAKI / Restaurant Afro Antillais / PARIS

Highly recommend booking a tour with the breh mbewane mentioned - Kévi. Did one when I went few years back and it was real dope. Type of info you normally won't find if you just stick to the regular tourist stuff (Eiffel, Louvre, arc de triumph, etc.)

He is bilingual and makes the tour real interesting

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

I fukking HATE FRENCH.

Annoying ass bullshyt language. Took 3 years of that shyt and still can’t put together a sentence, although that’s due to the hoe ass teacher I had. Spanish was full all 4 years

I do wanna visit the black areas tho I heard they got some fine ass women out there

Is it really that tough? Cause I was taking Italian on DuoLingo a few years ago and was surprised at how quickly I was picking it up. I assumed it would be harder. I ended up falling off smh. But I definitely would had learned it at least on a basic level if I would have continued. I was retaining a lot and doing it everyday. So I had assumed that French would be similar cause it’s a Romance language like Italian.

 

[WaveGang]

I beem all over london..i didnt say there are not of blacks..i was just responding to someone who was saying they heard black life in paris was lit

My bad pleyboi thats was up

 

[Unemployed GM]

They still not using deodorant in France? I went there back in the day they were smelling funky as hell.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

Is it really that tough? Cause I was taking Italian on DuoLingo a few years ago and was surprised at how quickly I was picking it up. I assumed it would be harder. I ended up falling off smh. But I definitely would had learned it at least on a basic level if I would have continued. I was retaining a lot and doing it everyday. So I had assumed that French would be similar cause it’s a Romance language like Italian.

french is one of the easiest languages for english speakers. its easier than italian

 

[IAMDetroit]

I been.. Was definitely lit

Dudes was sus though.



Where in London have you been?

London is black as fukk.

Yeah but black people been in France.
Populated the fukk out of France and Iberia.
Until 1492...

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I'm highly intrigued

 

[Premeditated]

african and especially Congolese is a huge influence in their musical culture. Most of the top 10 hits have have congolese musical instrument. Even the algerian and other north african artists overwhelminly dikkride the congolese french music. That's mostly how they get there hits over there.
The biggest french artist is a black woman by the name of Aya Nakamura. dark skin too
The french league also host the most african nationals. there are ligue 1 teams that have second clubs in west african countries

 

[Leasy]

Question is are they c00nin'? My guy in London says blacks in the UK are a permanent underclass and basically the bottom of every meaningful metric. Kneegrows there are on a mission to swirl themselves out of existence.

nikka you describing Black Americans

 

[Premeditated]

I read somewhere that there are around 700,000 Ivorians(of total descent, any generation) in France along
I think Senegalese are around 800,000
it's assumed that Senegal and Ivory coast both have datas that track the number of citizens they have living in france. so these numbers come from those countries. I'm sure who ever wrote those numbers have to be exaggerating though. Although Senegalese were one of the first group of black africans to move to france in waves

 

[UberEatsDriver]

@UncleTomFord15 France does have Haitians but the largest Caribbean groups in France are Martinique and Guadeloupe and you got some other French Africans that have numbers as well.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Is it really that tough? Cause I was taking Italian on DuoLingo a few years ago and was surprised at how quickly I was picking it up. I assumed it would be harder. I ended up falling off smh. But I definitely would had learned it at least on a basic level if I would have continued. I was retaining a lot and doing it everyday. So I had assumed that French would be similar cause it’s a Romance language like Italian.

No Latin language is tough to learn. I took Spanish, French and Italian and if you learn one the rest are even easier to pick up