[2] The majority of African-Romanians are of mixed ancestry, usually being the children of a Romanian parent and an African student who came to Romania.
The communist state leadership wanted to link mutual friendship with different countries.
[15] In Bucharest, although Afro-Romanians live in all parts of the city, most of them are concentrated in the Giurgiului and Baicului areas.
[16] The number of individuals with African ancestry is unknown, as Romania does not keep statistics on race.
During the Ceaușescu era, the sub-Saharan African students who came to study in Romania were primarily from areas of Francophone Africa and Northeast Africa (especially Sudan),[18] as Ceaușescu had formed diplomatic relations with the leaders of some of those countries.