Today, he is the first African-born person to sit in the German Federal Parliament. Karamba Diaby arrived in East Germany from Senegal in 1985 with a scholarship in his pocket. The election of the Senegalese-born holder of a doctorate degree in chemistry and that of the Afro-German Charles Huber (CDU) as the Bundestag’s first members of African descent in 2013 marked a watershed in the history of this country.
Karamba Diaby (57) represents the eastern city of Halle in the German Federal Parliament on the platform of the Social Democrats, the SPD.
