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bia and Racism (INADI), also created in
1995, the House of Africa started by
processing cases of discrimination and
moved on to disseminate the African
culture from its multiple point of view
in a country where two millions of
people if African descent live, according to estimates by activists, although in
the latest National Census (2010) only
150 thousand persons recognized themselves as such. Ba was invited to a TV

show after becoming the spokesman of
the street vendors who, because of
evictions, came into conflict with security forces. A similar fate befell Ba. Due
to an increase in the rent, he must leave
the place where he had been living.
Many in the Senegalese community
face such a precarious situation. Most
are employed in the informal economy
and often subjected to police abuse.

Street vendors’ protest in 2014
African communities
Many Senegalese entered Argentina,
like other sub-Saharan Africans, looking for job. After the thousands of
slaves who forcibly came through the
first half of the nineteenth century, and
the diaspora of willing migrants, especially from the Cape Verdean archipelago, arriving the last decades of the
same century, the third wave occurred
in the early 90s of the twentieth century.
Some Africans migrants acquired the

status of refugees, because they came
from countries in conflict, but the former French colony of Senegal was not
among them. Typically, the bulk of the
migrants came because of globalization,
regional imbalances, climate change
and unsatisfactory living conditions.
Africa is rich in resources, but also the
poorest region of the entire planet. In
2010 it was estimated that an African
and an Asian reached Argentina every
day. The reception improved since the

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