Afro-Cape Islander

Afro-Cape Islander (or African Cape Islander) people are people of Cape Island who are largely of African descent. Black, Negro or Creole where historical common terms used to describe Afro-Cape Islanders.

History
From 1815 to 1860, many freed Afro-Caribbean and African American slaves began settling near the Macan Bay area in Kleinpoort City, in a settlement later called "Freedomtown." Another fairly smaller community settled in Mennelsbro and Hooting in Jacksonburg. Many of the early Afro-Cape Islanders found work as domestic servants and carriage drivers. During this time miscegenation was common among Black people in the Cape Island, as well as the rape of black women by convicts; mixed-Black and white children where called 'Creoles' while people of full Black ancestry where called 'Negroes.'

Since the late 19th century onwards Somalis had been migrating to Cape Island mainly in Macan Bay, Kleinpoort City the first wave of which where seamen and merchants, the second during the Second World War where employees of the British Royal Navy. The largest and most prominent of Somali immigrants however where refugees arriving from the 1980s and 1990s onwards as asylum seekers escaping the Somali Civil War, and they currently form the largest part of the Afro-Cape Islander group.

More recently Black immigrants from the African continent, have been arriving from Congo, Ghana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.