African Sri Lankans අප්‍රිකානු නැටුම් බලන්න පුත්තලමට එන්න

African Sri Lankans, mainly the Sri Lanka Kaffirs, are a very small Ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are descendants of African mercenaries, musicians, and labourers taken to what is now Sri Lanka by Portuguese colonists during the period of Portuguese colonial rule on the island. There are currently around 1000 African Sri Lankans.

Religion: Sri Lanka Kaffirs originally adhered to traditional faiths. However, they now practice religions from Catholicism to Buddhism.

Culture: Sri Lanka’s Kaffir culture is a direct link back to their distant past in the African Great Lakes, which is rapidly disappearing.

Language : They spoke a distinctive creole based on Portuguese. The extinct language was known as ‘Sri Lankan Kaffir language”. It differs from Sri Lankan Portuguese creole. The Sri Lankan Kaffirs community is known in English as Kaffirs, in Sinhalese as Kapiri, and in Tamil