May Ayim is the pen name of May Opitz ; she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German dancer and Ghanaian medical student, she lived with a white German foster family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen name.
May Ayim
Ayim's grave at the Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg.
Afro-Germans or Black Germans are Germans of Sub-Saharan African descent.
African in a Hamburg Schembartlauf, c. 1600
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim: In der Tierbude (In the menagerie), Berlin, 1894
Afro-German Ignatius Fortuna († 1789), Kammermohr
German colonial adventurer Ernst Henrici, c. 1880