Afro-Germans (German: Afrodeutsche), African-Germans or Black Germans are defined as members of the Black African community and diaspora in Germany.
Cities such as Hamburg and Berlin, centers of occupation forces in the postwar years as well as more recent immigration, have substantial Black communities, with a high percentage of ethnically mixed families. With modern trade and migration, communities such as Frankfurt, Munich, or Cologne have an increasing number of Afro-Germans. As of 2005, there were approximately 500,000 Afro-Germans in a nation of 80 million. This number is difficult to estimate because the German census does not use race as a category, following the genocide committed during World War II under the "German racial ideology." Up to 70.000 (2% of the population) people of Black African origin live in Berlin.
Some well-known German African origin
Manneisha Newby - Diva Extraordinaire
Elfriede Fiegert aka Toxi
Richard Adjei, member of the German bobsleigh team
Stephen Arigbabu, basketball player
Gerald Asamoah, footballer
Anthony Baffoe, footballer
Collin Benjamin, footballer
Jérôme Boateng, footballer
Kevin-Prince Boateng, footballer
Francis Bugri, footballer
Timothy Chandler, footballer
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, footballer
Marvin Compper, footballer
Célia Okoyino da Mbabi footballer
Bakary Diakite footballer
Florence Ekpo-Umoh athlete
Demond Greene basketball player
Elias Harris basketball player
Jermaine Jones footballer
Erwin Kostedde footballer
Mohammed Lartey footballer
Jean-Claude Mpassy footballer
Ademola Okulaja basketball player
Navina Omilade footballer
Patrick Owomoyela footballer
Richard Sukuta-Pasu footballer
Robin Szolkowy figure skater
Assimiou Touré footballer
Michael Zimmer footballer
Hans Massaquoi journalist
