Black German

This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael.Theodor Michael is among the few surviving members of the first generation of ‘Afro-Germans’:  Born in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced the tightening knot of racial discrim