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Ivory Coast asylum seeker becomes top Welsh language activist

2023-10-10 20:17
Ivorian Joseff Ngabo is the first person of colour to lead a Welsh language campaign group.
Ivory Coast asylum seeker becomes top Welsh language activist

A refugee who fled war in west Africa is not the image that springs to mind when you think of the leader of a Welsh language campaign group.

Yet Joseff Ngabo from Ivory Coast has been elected chairman of Cymdeithas yr Iaith, just five years after seeking asylum in Wales.

It makes him the...