From Egypt to South Africa, the Greeks came in their thousands, and then they leftBy George PhilipasToday there remain only few Greeks in Africa, mainly in the metropolises of South Africa. Before Covid disrupted life, they regularly gathered for Christmas and Easter, even though most, including Papapetrou himself, left Africa almost 50 years ago. They mainly settled in Egypt and later travelled to Sudan before expanding to far-off places like East and South Africa. Nevertheless Greeks continued to thrive all over Africa numbering over 50,000 in Egypt by the 1940s and 60,000 in Sudan by the mid-1950s. The population of the last great centre of Greeks in Africa collapsed from a high of over 100,000 in the mid-1970s to just 35,000 today.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 04, 2021 14:03 UTC