The first Congolese people to arrive in France came later than the first
African immigrants. While people from the
Senegal River Valley (
Senegal,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Guinea) first arrived in the 1960s,
Central Africans (chiefly from
Cameroon and Congo), arrived in the 1970s. Most of them come for work or familial reunification, but there is also a large number of Congolese people who come with a
statute of
political asylum during the 1990s. ==Notable people==