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
Ayim's grave at the Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg.
Afro-Germans or Black Germans are German citizens who have ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
May Ayim
…May Ayim (3 May 1960 – 9 August 1996) is the pen name of May Opitz (born Brigitte Sylvia Andler); 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…
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim: In der Tierbude (In the menagerie), Berlin, 1894
Afro-German Ignatius Fortuna († 1789), Kammermohr
German colonial adventurer Ernst Henrici, c. 1880
Inside Brandenburger Gold Coast, February 1884