Africa

Burundi Band and Peace Choir

Food is eaten with one hand from a communal bowl

The women made traditional tea

Choral and clay pot tapping performance

Most migrants to Australia from Africa arrived fairly recently. Small numbers, particularly from Sudan and Tanzania started arriving from the 1960s, but most have arrived after 1991 with an increase from 2001.

Many people coming to Australia from Africa have arrived as humanitarian entrants, but others have come as skilled migrants. These communities include people from:

• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Ethiopia
• Eritrea
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Tanzania

Source

Office of Multicultural Interests - Community Profiles

Related Groups

21st Century Migration

Sudanese refugee Dondon Malith

Dondon Malith's refugee papers

English class at Edmund Rice Centre