Black People : Slovenia elects Peter Bossman as first black mayor

[hartwell]

A Ghana-born doctor has been elected the first black mayor in Slovenia - and probably the first in old Yugoslavia.

Peter Bossman, a candidate of the centre-left Social Democrats (SD), narrowly won a municipal election in the Slovenian coastal town of Piran.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11616879

 

[cherryblossom]

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...Dr Bossman settled in Slovenia, which was part of Yugoslavia, in the 1970s after arriving in the country to study medicine. He decided to stay after marrying a fellow student from Croatia.


Speaking about his campaign, in which he said he would introduce electric cars to the town, Dr Bossman said: ''I based my campaign on a dialogue, and I think the dialogue has won.''


But he was criticised during the campaign for not speaking fluent Slovene, prompting him to say in an interview with Delo, one of Slovenia's leading newspapers, that a friend and professor of Slovenian had ''offered to give me additional lessons''.


Slovenia has a population of about 2 million, most of whom are native Slovene. Few black people live in the country.

http://www.barossaherald.com.au/new...first-black-mayor-in-east-europe/1978601.aspx

 

[Ankhur]

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I gotta second that!!!!!!!!!!!

I grew up on Peanuts!

 

[Ankhur]

A Ghana-born doctor has been elected the first black mayor in Slovenia - and probably the first in old Yugoslavia.

Peter Bossman, a candidate of the centre-left Social Democrats (SD), narrowly won a municipal election in the Slovenian coastal town of Piran.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11616879

Brothers have been up there for a minute

from Pushkin in Russia, to Sesostris back in the days, and most communists were taught Black history in school and the entire civil rights struggle and the African revolutions