Iraq’s marginalised black community, limited to Basra’s Zubair district, claims they continue to face social and political discrimination, coupled with being subjected to living in inadequate living conditions. Zubair, like other distant sections of Iraq, is a land of poverty and deteriorating public facilities, with dusty roads and basic cement buildings. The long history of enslavement continues to cast a shadow on the way society perceives Afro-Iraqis, Hussein Dinar, deputy of the Zubair jour