⁣Afro-Caribbean or African-Caribbean, are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa. The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbeans descend from Africans taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in domestic households. Other names for the ethnic group include Black Caribbean, Afro or Black West Indian or Afro or Black Antillean. The term Afro-Caribbean was not coined by Caribbean People themselves but was first used by European Americans in the late 1960s.[5]
People of Afro-Caribbean descent today mainly have between 40–95% African ancestry with their remaining DNA being of non-African ancestry, such as those of European and South Asian or native Caribbean descent, as there has been extensive intermarriage and unions among the peoples over the centuries.
Although most Afro-Caribbean people today live in English, French
and Spanish-speaking Caribbean nations and territories, there are also
significant diaspora populations throughout the Western world—especially
in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and the
Netherlands. Both the home and diaspora populations have produced a
number of individuals who have had a notable influence on modern
Western, Caribbean and African societies; they include political
activists such as Marcus Garvey and C. L. R. James; writers and theorists such as Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon; US military leader and statesman Colin Powell; and musicians Bob Marley, Nicki Minaj and Rihanna.