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
Music:
Advanced Chemistry
Afrob
D-Flame
Samy Deluxe
Kalusha
Lou Bega
Taktlo$$
Harris
Jonesmann
Chima
Torch
B-Tight
RnB and Soul singers:
Manneisha Newby - Diva Extraordinaire
Ayo
Joy Denalane
Nadja Benaissa
Francisca Urio
Haddaway
Mark Medlock
Meshell Ndegeocello
Nneka
Jessica Wahls
Rob Pilatus
Cassandra Steen
Film
Elfriede Fiegert aka Toxi
Carol Campbell
Araba Walton
Nisma Cherrat
Sport
Otto Addo, footballer
Richard Adjei, member of the German bobsleigh team
Dennis Aogo, footballer
Stephen Arigbabu, basketball player
Gerald Asamoah, footballer
Anthony Baffoe, footballer
Collin Benjamin, footballer
Jérôme Boateng, footballer
Kevin-Prince Boateng, footballer
Francis Bugri, footballer
Cacau, footballer
Timothy Chandler, footballer
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, footballer
Marvin Compper, footballer
Célia Okoyino da Mbabi footballer
Bakary Diakite footballer
Chinedu Ede footballer
Florence Ekpo-Umoh athlete
Kamghe Gaba athlete
Demond Greene basketball player
Elias Harris basketball player
Jimmy Hartwig footballer
Jermaine Jones footballer
Steffi Jones footballer
Linda Kisabaka athlete
Erwin Kostedde footballer
Mohammed Lartey footballer
Joel Matip footballer
Marvin Matip footballer
Amewu Mensah athlete
Jean-Claude Mpassy footballer
Sabrina Mulrain athlete
David Odonkor footballer
Akwasi Oduro footballer
Ademola Okulaja basketball player
Navina Omilade footballer
Patrick Owomoyela footballer
Kofi Amoah Prah athlete
Leyti Seck alpine skier
Lennard Sowah footballer
Richard Sukuta-Pasu footballer
Robin Szolkowy figure skater
Assimiou Touré footballer
Reinhold Yabo footballer
Michael Zimmer footballer
Politics and social life
Hans Massaquoi journalist
