The
British diaspora in Africa is a population group broadly defined as
white Africans of
British descent who live in or come from
Sub-Saharan Africa. The majority live in
South Africa and other
Southern African countries including
Zimbabwe,
Namibia,
Botswana,
Zambia,
Tanzania,
Lesotho and
Swaziland. There are also sizable numbers in
Kenya,
Nigeria and
Ghana. Their
first language is usually
English,
South African English in the case of South Africans. Although the majority of white Africans who speak English as a first language are of British and
Irish ancestry, their numbers also include people of
Portuguese,
Italian,
German,
Jewish,
Dutch and
French Huguenot ancestry among others.