Afro-Germans
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Diaspora
A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...
in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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Historic backgrounds vary; so does allocation: in particular, cities like Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
and Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
have substantial grown Black communities, with a high percentage of ethnically mixed families; modern traffic and trade is further changing the communities in additional areas like Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, or Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
. As of 2005, there were approx. 500,000 Afro-Germans in a nation of 80 million. Although this number is hard to calculate because the German census does not list race as a category due to the complicated "legacy of German racial ideology."
There are up to 70.000 (2% of the population) people of Black African origin in Berlin.
History
Holy Roman Empire
In 926, the Nubian Saint MauriceSaint Maurice
Saint Maurice was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century, and one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that group. He was the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms...
became a patron saint of the Holy Roman Emperors and has been honored in various sculptures and graphics throughout Germany: City of Coburg's Coats of Arms or a sculpture in Magdeburg
Magdeburg
Magdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
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African and German interaction since 1600
The first German salesmen, missionaries and travelers came to Africa around 1600. The first Africans that they brought back home worked as aides for households or businesses. Most were living in situations comparable to their German-born work mates. GhanaGhana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
-born Anton Wilhelm Amo
Anton Wilhelm Amo
Anton Wilhelm Amo or Anthony William Amo was born in what is now Ghana, taken to Europe, and became a respected philosopher and teacher at the universities of Halle and Jena in Germany. He was the first African known to have attended a European university.-Early life and education:Amo was a Nzema...
became the first African to attend a European university during the 1720s and taught and wrote in philosophy - sponsored by a German duke.
Africans and German interaction between 1884 and 1945
At the 1884 Berlin Congo conference, attended by all major powers of the day, Africa was divided under European powers. The creation of the African German colonies set the stage for a larger number of Africans to enter Germany for the first time. The running of the German colonies demanded indigenous specialists for the colonial administration and economy, and many young Africans came to Germany to be educated. Some of them received higher education at German schools and universities, but the majority were trained at mission training and colonial training centers as officers or domestic mission teachers. Africans were frequently used as interpreters for African languages at German-Africa research centers, or came to Germany as former members of the German protection troops, the AskariAskari
Askari is an Arabic, Bosnian, Urdu, Turkish, Somali, Persian, Amharic and Swahili word meaning "soldier" . It was normally used to describe local troops in East Africa, Northeast Africa, and Central Africa serving in the armies of European colonial powers...
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Rhineland Bastards
During the tempestuous years following World War IWorld War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, the French Army
French Army
The French Army, officially the Armée de Terre , is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces.As of 2010, the army employs 123,100 regulars, 18,350 part-time reservists and 7,700 Legionnaires. All soldiers are professionals, following the suspension of conscription, voted in...
occupied the Rhineland
Rhineland
Historically, the Rhinelands refers to a loosely-defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe....
, utilising African soldiers amongst their forces. Their children (like Hans Hauck
Hans Hauck
Hans Hauck was an Afro-German survivor of the Nazi regime in Germany.Hans was born in Frankfurt in 1920. He was the son of an Algerian soldier serving in the French Army. In 1933 he joined the Hitler Youth while living in Saarland . An SS officer helped get him work on the railway...
) were known as "Rhineland Bastards". As their name suggests, they were subject to much discrimination and degradation.
Weimar Republic
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
the Belgians, British and French took control of Germany's colonies in Africa. The situation for the Africans who had lived under German administration in Africa changed in various ways. For example, these Africans had possessed a colonial German identification card, and this became a status which allowed for treatment as "members of the former protectorates". After the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of...
(1919), the Africans were encouraged to become citizens of their respective mandate countries, but most preferred to stay where they were. In numerous petitions (well documented for Togo
Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...
by P. Sebald and for Cameroon
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...
by A. Rüger) they also tried to inform the German public about the conditions in the colonies and continued to request German help and support.
To the numerous political activities of Africans belonged the foundation of a bilingual periodical that appeared in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
and Duala
Duala language
Duala is the language spoken by the Duala people of Cameroon. The language belonges to the Bantu language family, and a subgroup of it called the Duala languages...
: Elolombe ya Cameroon (Sun of Cameroon). A political group of Africans established the German branch of a Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
-based human-rights organization: "the German section of the League to the Defense of the Negro Race".
Many of the Africans encountered the Great Depression
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
in Germany with no claim for unemployment compensation as this depended on German citizenship. Some Africans were however supported through a small budget from the German Foreign Office.
Nazi Germany
The conditions for Africans in Germany grew worse during the National Socialistic dictatorship. Naturalized Afro-Germans lost their passports. Working conditions and travel were made extremely difficult for Black musicians, variety, circus or film professionals.Based on a racist propaganda, it was impossible even for willing employers to retain black employees. To become invisible with the evident visibility and compulsion had become less a life condition than an act of balance.
The Nazis speculated about the possibility of winning the support of Africans from former German colonies for a pro-German colonial propaganda, as the Nazis were planning an "African colonial empire under German predominance". The legislation for a planned, apartheid-like system already existed in design in 1940, including laws for slaves and an African passport design. Nazi Germany never approached the realization of its colonial dreams.
Aside from being socially isolated, some Africans in Germany were subject to compulsory sterilization or rendition to concentration camps.
- For more information see Rhineland BastardRhineland BastardRhineland Bastard was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to describe Afro-German children of mixed German and African parentage who were fathered by Africans serving as French colonial troops occupying the Rhineland after World War I...
- For the biography of a black African in Germany under Nazi rule see also Hans MassaquoiHans MassaquoiHans-Jürgen Massaquoi is a German American journalist and author. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, to a German mother and Liberian Vai father, the grandson of Momulu Massaquoi the consul general of Liberia in Germany at the time....
's Destined to WitnessDestined to WitnessDestined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany, is an autobiographical book by Hans J. Massaquoi.-Content:In his 1999 autobiography the author, former managing editor of Ebony, tells the story of his growing up in Hamburg. He was born in 1926 as son of a German mother and a Liberian law...
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Afro-Germans in Germany since 1945
The end of World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
brought Allied occupation forces onto German soil of which numerous soldiers were of African American, Afro-Caribbean or African descent. Until recently, there have been more than 100,000 U.S. soldiers stationed on German soil. These men established their lives in Germany and either brought families with them or founded new ones with German wives and children.
Immigration and asylum
From the late 1980s and onwards, Germany experienced large numbers of political asylum seekers and immigrants from African states.For more information see Immigration to Germany
Immigration to Germany
On 1 January 2005, a new immigration law came into effect that altered the legal method of immigration to Germany. The political background to the introduction of the new immigration law being that Germany for the first time ever acknowledged to be an "immigration country." Although the practical...
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Afro-Germans in literature
Novel about a faith healer and rock band manager, featuring an Afro-German character, Josef Ehelich von Fremd, an affluent fellow who works in arbitrage and owns fine racehorses.Politics and social life
- Hans MassaquoiHans MassaquoiHans-Jürgen Massaquoi is a German American journalist and author. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, to a German mother and Liberian Vai father, the grandson of Momulu Massaquoi the consul general of Liberia in Germany at the time....
Journalist, has written about his childhood in Nazi Germany.
Art, culture, and music
The cultural life of Afro-Germans has multifarious aspects and strive in its variety and complexity. With the emerge of MTVMTV Central
MTV Germany, is a 24- hour German speaking entertainment channel operated by MTV Networks Europe. The channel was launched as MTV Networks Europe began to localize its brand throughout Europe in 1997. MTV Germany was launched on March 7, 1997...
and Viva an increased globalized "ethnicifiation" of mainly American pop culture further promoted Afro-German representation in German media and culture.
Black African musicians in Germany include:
- Advanced ChemistryAdvanced ChemistryAdvanced Chemistry is a German hip hop group from Heidelberg, a scenic city in Baden-Württemberg, South Germany. Advanced Chemistry was founded in 1987 by Toni L, Linguist, Gee-One, DJ Mike MD and MC Torch...
- AfrobAfrobAfrob is an Afro-German rapper of Eritrean descent. He is easily recognizable due to his trademark afro, from which his pseudonym is derived.- Biography :...
- D-FlameD-FlameDaniel Kretschmer, better known by his stage-name D-Flame, is a German hip hop and reggae musician. He was also previously part of the hip hop formation Asiatic Warriors.-Albums:* 2000 - Basstard...
- Samy DeluxeSamy DeluxeSamy Sorge , commonly known as Samy Deluxe, Wickeda MC or Sam Semillia is a German rapper, and hip hop artist from Hamburg. He is one of Germany's most successful solo rap musicians while also releasing albums as a member of two separate crews, Dynamite Deluxe and ASD...
- Kalusha
- Lou BegaLou BegaDavid Lubega , also known as Lou Bega, is a German musician of Italian and Ugandan descent, and is famous for his song "Mambo No. 5 ". This song is a remake of the Perez Prado instrumental from 1949...
- Taktlo$$
- HarrisHarris (rapper)Oliver Harris , better known as Harris, is a German rapper from Berlin Kreuzberg. He founded the hip hop duo Spezializtz and the record label G.B.Z. Imperium with Dean Dawson. Together with Sido, he forms the duo Deine Lieblings Rapper. He is married to pop/soul singer Bintia. He is of...
- JonesmannJonesmannSamson Jones, better known as Jonesmann, is a German rapper. He was born in Frankfurt to an African American father and a German mother. He was signed to Azad's label Bozz Music and Sony BMG. Now he is signed to his own label 'Echte Musik'.-Biography:...
- ChimaChimaChima is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia....
- TorchTorch (rapper)Frederik Hahn , better known by his stage name Torch, is a German rapper with Haitian roots. He was among the first German rappers who began rapping in German in the mid-1980s in Heidelberg, laying the foundation for the success of German hip hop music...
- B-TightB-TightRobert Edward Davis , better known by his stage name B-Tight, is a Gangsta rapper, who grew up in Berlin, Germany.- Early life and personal life :...
RnB
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
and Soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
singers:
- AyoAyo"Ayo!" is an R&B/Go-go song by American singer-songwriter Mýa and features DJ Kool. The track was produced by Chris Henderson for Harrison fourth studio album Liberation. Ayo! was written by Chris Henderson, Mýa, and Charlie Smalls....
- Joy DenalaneJoy DenalaneJoy Maureen Denalane , known as Joy Denalane, is a German singer-songwriter, known for her mixture of soul, R&B, and African folk music with lyrics in German and English.-Early life:...
- Nadja BenaissaNadja BenaissaNadja Benaissa is a German singer, songwriter and occasional actress, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date", according to the German media.After a series of commercially successful releases...
- Francisca UrioFrancisca UrioFrancisca Urio is a German singer-songwriter and radio presenter of Afro-German heritage who lives in Berlin.- Personal life :...
- HaddawayHaddawayNestor Alexander Haddaway , better known by his stage name Haddaway, is a Trinidadian-German singer. He is most famous for his worldwide 1993 hit, "What Is Love".- Early life :...
- Mark MedlockMark MedlockMark Medlock is a German singer and the winner of the season 4 of Deutschland sucht den Superstar , the German version of Pop Idol.-Early life:...
- Meshell Ndegeocello
- NnekaNneka (singer)Nneka Lucia Egbuna is a Nigerian-German hip hop/soul singer and songwriter. She sings in both English and Igbo.- Biography :Nneka is the daughter of an Anambra state- Igbo Nigerian father and a German mother...
- Jessica WahlsJessica WahlsJessica Martina Wahls , also known under her nickname Jess, is a German pop singer, songwriter and television host, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German media.-Early...
- Rob PilatusRob PilatusRobert "Rob" Pilatus was a German-American model, dancer and singer. Pilatus was best known as half of the pop music duo Milli Vanilli.-Early life:...
- Cassandra SteenCassandra SteenCassandra Steen is a German singer, songwriter and voice actress, who rose to fame as the lead singer of the trio Glashaus....
Film
The SFD - Schwarze Filmschaffende in Deutschland (Black Artists in German Film, literally Black Filmmakers in Germany) is a professional association based in BerlinBerlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
for directors
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, producers
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
s, and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
s who are Afro-Germans or of Black African origin and living in Germany.
- Carol Campbell (actress)Carol Campbell (actress)Carol Campbell is an Afro-German actress, model and presenter.-Biography:She is the daughter of a African-American Jazz musician from New York and a German casting agent and make-up artist. She studied acting, dance, singing and presenting in Berlin and Los Angeles...
- Araba WaltonAraba WaltonNinckname " The Coffee Bean": is an Afro-German actress and singer.She completed a three-year course at the School of Acting, The Arts Educational Schools in London after studying theater studies in Munich, Germany.Walton played in several West End and Off West End productions before moving end...
(actress) - Nisma CherratNisma CherratNisma Cherrat is an Afro-German actress.She grew up in the Schwarzwald region in Germany and attended 1989 to 1992 the Neue Münchner Schauspielschule...
(actress)
Sport
- Otto Addo footballer
- Richard AdjeiRichard AdjeiRichard Adjei is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2007 and former American football linebacker.-Biography:...
member of the German Bobsleigh team - Dennis AogoDennis AogoDennis Aogo is a German footballer of Nigerian and German descent who plays as a defender or defensive midfielder for Hamburger SV and the German national team.-Early life:...
footballer - Stephen ArigbabuStephen ArigbabuStephen Olumide Arigbabu is a former German professional basketball player. He is 2.12 m tall. Arigbabu plays at the center position.-Pro career:...
basketball player - Gerald AsamoahGerald AsamoahGerald Asamoah is a Ghanaian-born German footballer. He last played as a forward for FC St.Pauli, following an 11-year long stay at Schalke.-Club career:...
footballer - Anthony BaffoeAnthony BaffoeAnthony Baffoe is a former Ghanaian football player. As the son of a Ghanaian diplomat, Baffoe grew up near to the former West German capital of Bonn and made a name for himself in the 1980s in the Bundesliga, becoming a real crowd favourite for 1...
footballer - Collin BenjaminCollin BenjaminCollin Benjamin is a Namibian football midfielder. He plays for German side TSV 1860 Munich and Namibia.He represented Namibia at the 2008 African Cup of Nations and has 32 caps.-External links:* at transfermarkt.de...
footballer - Jérôme BoatengJérôme BoatengJérôme Agyenim Boateng is a German international footballer who currently plays for Bayern Munich. A versatile defender, Boateng primarily is a centre back, although he is a capable full back on either side....
footballer - Kevin-Prince BoatengKevin-Prince BoatengKevin Prince-Boateng , is a German-born Ghanaian footballer, who plays as a Midfielder for Serie A club A.C. Milan. He won nine caps from The Black Stars of Ghana after appearing for Germany's under-15s to their under-21s; he retired from international football on 4 November 2011.-Club career:A...
footballer - CacauCacauCacau is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1933 and was his second novel....
footballer - Timothy ChandlerTimothy ChandlerTimothy "Timmy" Chandler is a German-born American soccer player who currently plays for Bundesliga side 1. FC Nuremberg.-Early life:...
footballer - Eric Maxim Choupo-MotingEric Maxim Choupo-MotingJean-Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting is a German-born Cameroonian footballer who plays for FSV Mainz 05 as a striker.- Career :...
footballer - Marvin CompperMarvin CompperMarvin Compper is a German footballer who plays as a defender for 1899 Hoffenheim. His father was born in Guadeloupe....
footballer - Célia Okoyino da MbabiCélia Okoyino da MbabiCélia Okoyino da Mbabi is a German footballer. She plays as a midfielder or a striker for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr and the German national team.-Club:...
footballer - Bakary DiakiteBakary DiakitéBakary Diakité is a Malian footballer of part German descent currently playing for Foolad F.C.-External links:...
footballer - Chinedu EdeChinedu EdeChinedu Ede is a German footballer who plays for 1. FC Union Berlin.- Career :Ede began his career with Berlin AK 07 and joined later the Reinickendorfer Füchse. In summer 1999 was scouted by Hertha BSC. He played there first for the youth team and was promoted to first team on 6 April 2006...
footballer - Florence Ekpo-UmohFlorence Ekpo-UmohFlorence Ekpo-Umoh is a Nigerian-German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.She last competed for her birth country Nigeria at the 1994 World Junior Championships. She defected to Germany in 1995 during a training camp there, married her German trainer in 1998 and received German...
athlete - Kamghe GabaKamghe GabaKamghe Gaba is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He represents LG Eintracht Frankfurt.As a teenager he competed in combined events, finishing fifth in octathlon at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Debrecen.In 2006 he ran in a personal best of 45.47 seconds as he became...
athlete - Demond GreeneDemond GreeneDemond Greene is a dual German-American citizen and professional basketball player. He plays both the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is 1.86 m in height and he weighs 86 kg . His father is from the USA and his mother is German.Greene currently plays with the number 24 for...
basketball player - Jimmy HartwigJimmy HartwigWilliam "Jimmy" Hartwig is a retired German football player. He played for Kickers Offenbach, TSV 1860 München, Hamburger SV, 1. FC Köln and FC Homburg of the Bundesliga and for Austria Salzburg of Austria...
footballer - Jermaine JonesJermaine JonesJermaine Jones is a German-born American soccer player who plays for Schalke 04.- Personal life :Jones grew up in Frankfurt-Bonames. His father is an African-American soldier who was stationed in Germany. As a child, Jones lived in Chicago and Greenwood, Mississippi in the U.S...
footballer - Steffi JonesSteffi JonesStephanie Ann "Steffi" Jones is a retired German football defender. She now works as a football administrator, and was in charge of organizing the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.- Biography :...
footballer - Linda KisabakaLinda KisabakaLinda Kisabaka is a retired German middle distance runner. She ran the 400 metres until 1996, when she began specializing in the 800 metres. She retired in 2001, having represented the sports clubs Bayer 04 Leverkusen and LAZ Leipzig during her active career.Her personal best time is 1:58.24...
athlete - Erwin KosteddeErwin KosteddeErwin Kostedde is a German former footballer. He was the first black player to play for West Germany, and was the topscorer in the Belgian league in 1970-71 and in Ligue 1 in 1979-80.-References:* *...
footballer - Mohammed LarteyMohammed LarteyPhilipp Mohammed Kotoku Lartey is a Ghanaian-German footballer, who currently plays for FC Hansa Rostock in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga. He holds both a Ghanaian passport and a German passport.- Career :...
footballer - Joel MatipJoël MatipJoël Job Matip is a German-Cameroonian footballer currently playing for Schalke 04.-Career:Matip began his career with SC Weitmar 45 in 1994, and was eventually scouted by VfL Bochum in 1997. After several years in VfL Bochum's different youth teams, Matip was scouted by Schalke 04 in July 2000...
footballer - Marvin MatipMarvin MatipMarvin Matip is a German professional footballer who plays for FC Ingolstadt 04.- Club career :Matip began his career with VfL Bochum, but moved to 1. FC Köln in 2005...
footballer - Amewu MensahAmewu MensahAmewu Mensah is a German high jumper.At the 1999 World Championships she reached the final, but failed to clear the opening height there. In June 2000 in Rehlingen she achieved a career best jump is 1.94 metres...
athlete - Jean-Claude MpassyJean-Claude MpassyJean-Claude Mpassy-Nzoumba is a German-Congolese football player who is currently playing for SC Columbia Florisdorf.-International:His debut in the national team was on 8 June 2008 in Brazzaville vs. Sudan.-External links:*...
footballer - Sabrina MulrainSabrina MulrainSabrina Mulrain is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.She won the 200 metres gold medal at the 1997 European Junior Championships and finished sixth in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the 2000 Olympic Games, with teammates Gabi Rockmeier, Andrea Philipp and Marion Wagner...
athlete - David OdonkorDavid OdonkorDavid Odonkor is a German footballer who plays for Alemannia Aachen usually as a right winger.He started playing professionally not yet in his 20's, with Borussia Dortmund, appearing in nearly 100 official matches...
footballer - Akwasi OduroAkwasi OduroAkwasi Qwakeye Oduro is a Belgian defender of Ghanaian descent who currently free agent.- Career :He emigrated to Belgium when he was ten and started playing for Gierle and K.V. Turnhout. At the age of 14 he moved to Standard de Liège who played between 2006 now moved to the first team of KSK...
footballer - Ademola OkulajaAdemola OkulajaAdemola Okulaja, is a former German professional basketball player. The last team he played for were the Brose Baskets from Germany...
basketball player - Navina OmiladeNavina OmiladeNavina Omilade is a German football midfielder who currently plays for VfL Wolfsburg. She has also been capped for the German national team.-External links:*...
footballer - Patrick OwomoyelaPatrick OwomoyelaPatrick Owomoyela is a German footballer who plays for Fußball-Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, having previously played for Lüneburger SK, VfL Osnabrück, SC Paderborn 07, Arminia Bielefeld and Werder Bremen...
footballer - Kofi Amoah PrahKofi Amoah PrahKofi Amoah Prah is a retired German long jumper.He won the silver medal at the 1992 European Indoor Championships, finished seventh at the 1998 IAAF World Cup, eleventh at the 1998 European Championships and fifth at the 2000 Olympic Games.He represented the sports clubs Berliner SC and LAC...
athlete - Leyti SeckLeyti SeckLeyti Seck, , is a Senegalese alpine skier.-Biography:Seck was his country's only representative at the 2006 Winter Olympics...
alpine skier - Lennard SowahLennard SowahLennard Adjeley Sowah is a German-Ghanaian footballer currently under contract to Hamburger SV, although he has not yet been selected for their first team. He is a defender in the left back position, but can also play in a more advanced left wing position...
footballer - Richard Sukuta-PasuRichard Sukuta-PasuRichard Sukuta-Pasu is a German football striker playing for 1. FC Kaiserslautern.- Career :Sukuta-Pasu began his career in summer 1998 in his hometown Wuppertal with Grün-Weiß Wuppertal and was in June 2000 scouted by Fußball-Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen...
footballer - Robin SzolkowyRobin SzolkowyRobin Szolkowy is a German pair skater. With partner Aliona Savchenko, he is a three-time World Champion, the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, a four-time European Champion, the 2007–08 and 2010–11 Grand Prix Final Champion, and a seven-time German National Champion.Savchenko & Szolkowy scored the...
figure skater - Assimiou TouréAssimiou TouréAssimiou Touré is a Togolese football defender. He currently plays for Arminia Bielefeld. He also holds a German passport.-Career:...
footballer - Reinhold YaboReinhold YaboReinhold Yabo is a Ghanaian-German footballer, who is currently playing for the German club Alemannia Aachen in the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga of the Fußball-Bundesliga. He holds both a Ghanaian passport and a German passport.-Career:Yabo began his career with Teutonia Niedermerz and joined 2001 into...
footballer - Michael ZimmerMichael ZimmerMichael Zimmer is a former professional German footballer.Zimmer made a total of 21 appearances in the Fußball-Bundesliga and 26 in the 2. Bundesliga for Tennis Borussia Berlin during his playing career.- References :...
footballer
External links
- African Union Diaspora Committee Deutschland Zentralrat der Afrikanischen Diaspora Deutschland mit Mandat der Afrikanischen Union
- May Ayim Award - The 1st Black German International Literature Award
- Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland
- African Diaspora in Germany
- cyberNomads - The Black German Databank Network and Media Channel Our Knowledge Resource on the Net
- SFD – Schwarze Filmschaffende in Deutschland