In 1991, he was awarded his master’s degree and in 1996 his doctorate in genecology.Īfter the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and during the period of German reunification, Diaby found temporary employment with the government as a scientific investigator, teacher, and an immigration liaison His work was recognized by President Johannes Rau in Berlin in 2001. Nine months later, he began studying chemistry in communist East Germany (German Democratic Republic) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, where again he was involved in student politics, leading the International Student Committee. It was at the university that Diaby developed an interest in politics and joined the student movement, along with the nation’s future president, Macky Sall, with whom he became friends.ĭiaby earned a scholarship to study German in Leipzig, Germany in 1985. Diaby attended a boarding school and Lycée Senegal prior to entering Cheikh Anta Diop University (Université Cheikh Anta Diop) in Dakar. He was raised by his older sister, Goundoba, and her husband.
Born November 27, 1961, in the small town of Marsassoum in southwest Senegal, by age seven both of his natural parents were deceased. In 2013, Karamba Diaby was one of the two Afro- Germans elected to the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.
