Africans in Hong Kong


Africans in Hong Kong constitute a small number of total residents in Hong Kong.

Population

There were around 2,000 Africans living in Hong Kong in 2018 according to the Hong Kong African Association. This includes migrants from Southern Africa, who number around 200 residents and consist mainly of Africans of European origin.
About half of the Africans in Hong Kong live in Yuen Long, with another concentration in Chungking Mansions in Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui district. Many Africans in Hong Kong are traders, dealing in mobile phones and electronic devices for export markets at shops in Chungking Mansions.

Drug trafficking

As part of a series of anti-drug arrests in 2015, over 40 Gambians were arrested in Hong Kong on charges of drug trafficking and working without a permit in May. By July, the Hong Kong Police Force declared success in its anti-drug campaign. Mark Ford-McNicol, the Assistant District Commander for the Central vice squad said: "The blatant drug trafficking in Lan Kwai Fong has been eradicated.... We’ve more or less cleared Lan Kwai Fong of the African guys that were doing it."