The British African Caribbean community are residents of the United Kingdom who are of West Indian background and whose ancestors were primarily indigenous to Africa. As immigration to the United Kingdom from Africa increased in the 1990s, the term has been used to include UK residents solely of African origin, or as a term to define all Black British residents, though this is usually denoted by "African and Caribbean".

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  • The British African Caribbean community are residents of the United Kingdom who are of West Indian background and whose ancestors were primarily indigenous to Africa. As immigration to the United Kingdom from Africa increased in the 1990s, the term has been used to include UK residents solely of African origin, or as a term to define all Black British residents, though this is usually denoted by "African and Caribbean". The most common and traditional use of the term Afro-Caribbean community is in reference to groups of residents' continuing aspects of Caribbean culture, customs and traditions in the United Kingdom. The largest proportion of the African-Caribbean population in the UK are of Jamaican origin; others trace origins to nations such as Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, which though located on the South American mainland, is very culturally similar to the Caribbean, and was historically considered to be part of the British West Indies, and Belize, in Central America, which culturally is more akin to the English-speaking Caribbean than to Latin America, due to its colonial and still-extant economic ties to the UK. African-Caribbean communities exist throughout the United Kingdom, though by far the largest concentrations are in London and Birmingham. Significant communities also exist in other population centres, notably Manchester, Nottingham, Coventry, Luton, Leicester, Bristol, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Liverpool and Cardiff. In these cities, the community is traditionally associated with a particular area, such as, Brixton,Harlesden,Stonebridge, Lewisham, Tottenham, Dalston and Peckham in London, Chapeltown in Leeds, St. Pauls in Bristol, or Handsworth in Birmingham or Moss Side In Manchester.
  • La communauté afro-caribéenne du Royaume-Uni désigne la population noire britannique originaire des Antilles britanniques, qui était elle-même descendante des personnes amenées d'Afrique aux Amériques en tant qu’esclaves entre le XVI siècle et le XIX siècle. Du fait de la montée dans les années 1990 de l'immigration au Royaume-Uni en provenance des pays d'Afrique, on emploie aussi cette appellation pour désigner les citoyens britanniques d'origine africaine, si bien que le terme regroupe aujourd'hui à la fois les notions d'origine africaine et caribéenne. L'utilisation la plus courante de ce terme se rapporte à tout groupe de personne résidant sur le sol britannique et adoptant les us, traditions et coutumes de la culture caribéenne. La grande majorité de la population afro-caribéenne britannique est d'origine jamaïcaine. Cependant, les afro-caribéens sont originaires d'une multitude d'autres États de moindre importance, dont la République de Trinité-et-Tobago, Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès, la Barbade, Sainte-Lucie, la Grenade, Montserrat, la Dominique, Anguilla, Antigua-et-Barbuda, Saint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines, et la Guyana, tous situés en Amérique du Sud, ayant une culture caribéenne et considérés historiquement comme faisant partie des colonies britanniques de cette partie du globe. Un certain nombre de celles-ci sont des territoires britanniques d'outre-mer, dont les ressortissants sont donc « citoyen d'un territoire britannique d'outre-mer » et donc dotés de plein droit de la citoyenneté britannique depuis le British Overseas Territories Act de 2002 (en). La communauté est dispersée dans tout le Royaume-Uni, même elle est principalement et massivement concentrée à Londres, Birmingham et dans les Midlands de l'Ouest. Des communautés afro-américaines importantes existent également dans d'autres villes urbaines, notamment à Manchester, Nottingham, Leicester, Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool et Cardiff. Dans ces villes, la communauté est traditionnellement associée à un quartier ou une zone particulière, comme par exemple Chapeltown à Leeds ou St. Pauls à Bristol.
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  • British Indo-Caribbean community
  • Caribbeans in the UK of Indian origin
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  • British African-Caribbean (British Afro-Caribbean)
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  • UK, 2001: 565,900 (approximately 1.00% of the British population) England, 2005: 590,400 (approximately 1.20% of the English population) UK, 2008: estimated 750,000 (approximately 1.30% of the British population)
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  • The British African Caribbean community are residents of the United Kingdom who are of West Indian background and whose ancestors were primarily indigenous to Africa. As immigration to the United Kingdom from Africa increased in the 1990s, the term has been used to include UK residents solely of African origin, or as a term to define all Black British residents, though this is usually denoted by "African and Caribbean".
  • La communauté afro-caribéenne du Royaume-Uni désigne la population noire britannique originaire des Antilles britanniques, qui était elle-même descendante des personnes amenées d'Afrique aux Amériques en tant qu’esclaves entre le XVI siècle et le XIX siècle.
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  • British African-Caribbean community
  • Communauté afro-caribéenne du Royaume-Uni
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