Los Angeles
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- A service in the Ethiopian Orthodox church can last many hours
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- The Ethiopian community in LA is the second largest, here is the Orthodox Church, on of the oldest is town
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- After the traditional mass Ethiopians gather to share food and drinks
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- Every Sunday Ethiopians gather in church early in the morning
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- Congolese community in LA gathers every week for playing soccer
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- Given the urban geography of the city, Africans in LA are not living in one area
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- Tito Mongali Londole (left) came from France to promote his movie filmed in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa
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- Africans usually arrive in the US as students and then find job in any field
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- In the ’60s the Congolese community counted very few families, now the group arrived to thousands people
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- Ricardo Lemvo (right) is an Angolan-Congolese singer. His father was part of the generation that first arrived in LA
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- After each match the Congolese community spend few hours together, here Gianpaolo is learning Tshiluba, one of the Congolse languages
NEW YORK - Harlem has always been the African neighborhood par excellence, but nowadays people are relocating to the further north of the city and to New Jersey from where they can travel to NYC
CARDIFF - Butetown is the oldest Somali settlement in the UK, it's also a very multicultural neighborhood in the Welsh capital of Cardiff. The first Somali sailors arrived in the 17th century