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The Lebanese people (Arabic: الشعب ... In Africa, Ghana and the Ivory Coast are home to over 100,000 Lebanese. ...
Edward J. Akar, former Minister of Finance. John Akar, writer and diplomat; composer of Sierra Leone's national anthem. Tarek El Ali, footballer [8] Faisal Antar, footballer. Roda Antar, footballer. Kassim Basma, diamond exporter. Nabih Berri, Sierra Leone-born Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament. Joe Blell, former Minister of Defense.
Lebanese people in South Africa have a population exceeding 5,100 [3] and other estimates report a total of 20,000 Lebanese in South Africa. In addition, an increasing number of Lebanese students seeking education and career opportunities opted for the country in light of its relatively reputable institutions across the Middle East.
v. t. e. Lebanese diaspora refers to Lebanese migrants and their descendants who emigrated from Lebanon and now reside in other countries. There are more people of Lebanese origin living outside Lebanon than within the country (5.3 million citizens). The diaspora population consists of Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Jews.
Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast are a community of people whose ancestors are Lebanese and either emigrated to the Ivory Coast directly or are descended from those who did. It is the largest Lebanese diaspora in Africa. [ 1 ] The number of Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast are variously estimated in the tens or hundreds of thousands. [ 6 ...
People from Lebanon first migrated to West Africa in the 19th-century to flee oppression and economic crisis in the Ottoman Empire. [8] Reportedly, the first Lebanese immigrant to Nigeria was Elias Khoury who migrated from the Lebanese village of Miziara to Lagos in 1890. [ 10 ]
Demographics. As of 2006, official data on the Lebanese population in Senegal remains unavailable. Estimates range from 25,000–30,000 according to the Consulate Officer at the Lebanese Embassy in Dakar, whereas the Director General of the Ministry of Emigrants in Beirut suggests a decrease to 15,000 from a prior estimate of 30,000.
Lebanese immigrants first came to West Africa in the mid-19th century when a silk-worm crisis struck their homeland, then part of the Ottoman Empire; the first Lebanese arrived in British Sierra Leone in 1893. The first groups were Maronite Christians, but beginning in 1903, Shia Muslim Lebanese began to arrive from South Lebanon where there ...