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African diaspora that have made it to VERY powerful places:
ireland
Rotimi Adebari
Ireland's first black mayor hailed his election as a symbol of how European countries can adapt successfully to rapid rates of immigration. Rotimi Adebari, who arrived seven years ago as an asylum seeker and became a councillor in 2004, has been chosen as the first citizen of Portlaoise.
Edmond Lukusa is an Irish politician and a member of Fingal County Council.He was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he became involved in politics as a member of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress.
He moved to Ireland in 2001.
At the 2014 local elections, he was elected for the Sinn Féin party to Fingal County Council in the Mulhuddart local electoral area
Poland
John Godson:
He is a Polish, independent Member of Parliament
Killion Munzele Munyama :
is a Zambian-born Polish economist, academic lecturer, politician and a delegate to the Polish parliament.
Slovenia:
Peter Bossman:
is a Ghanaian-born Slovenian doctor and politician. He is currently serving as mayor of Piran, a city and municipality in Slovenian Istria in south-western Slovenia.
RUSSIA:
Jean Gregoire Sagbo:
Jean Gregoire Sagbo is a Benin-born Russian real estate agent and politician. His position is councilor of Novozavidovo in Konakovsky District, Tver Oblast.
Councilman of Novozavidovo, a rural community, about 65 miles North of Moscow.
germany:
John Ehret:
Germany's First modern Elected Black Mayor
The mayor of Mauer, elected in 2012. He is the "first 'African' elected mayor in Germany in modern times"
ALSO
Karamba Diaby
An alum of the Cheikh Anta Diop University, he left Senegal to study chemistry in East Germany in 1985 and stayed past the reunification of Germany, after which he became more involved in political and social activism.
tOn September 22, 2013, Diaby was elected to the Bundestag as a Social Democratic Party of Germany candidate from Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt.
Diaby currently serves as deputy chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and as full member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment.
Dr. rer. nat. Karamba Diaby, SPDDiplom-ChemikerGeboren am 27. November 1961 in Marsassoum/Senegal; verheiratet; zwei Kinder.1982 bis 1984 Hochschulstudium, Universität Dakar (Senegal); 1985 bis 1986 Deutschkurs am Herder-Institut der Universität Leipzig; 1986 bis 1991 Chemiestudium, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; 1992 bis 1996 Promotionsstudium, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
Charles M. Huber
German politician and actor, perhaps most notable for playing Henry Johnson in the German crime series Der Alte.
He was one of the first two Bundestag members of African ancestry, alongside Karamba Diaby, who were both elected on September 23, 2013. Huber is a member of the Christian Democratic Union and was elected in the federal state of Hesse
Finland:
Jani Toivola:
Finland’s 1st Black Parliamentarian
Until Toivola got elected in 2011, there wasn’t a single black member of Finland’s parliament.
Electoral district: Electoral District of Uusimaa 20.04.2011 -
Present memberships in committees: Education and Culture Committee (member) 09.06.2015 -
Toivola is also openly gay.
ireland
Rotimi Adebari
Ireland's first black mayor hailed his election as a symbol of how European countries can adapt successfully to rapid rates of immigration. Rotimi Adebari, who arrived seven years ago as an asylum seeker and became a councillor in 2004, has been chosen as the first citizen of Portlaoise.
Edmond Lukusa is an Irish politician and a member of Fingal County Council.He was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he became involved in politics as a member of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress.
He moved to Ireland in 2001.
At the 2014 local elections, he was elected for the Sinn Féin party to Fingal County Council in the Mulhuddart local electoral area
Poland
John Godson:
He is a Polish, independent Member of Parliament
Killion Munzele Munyama :
is a Zambian-born Polish economist, academic lecturer, politician and a delegate to the Polish parliament.
Slovenia:
Peter Bossman:
is a Ghanaian-born Slovenian doctor and politician. He is currently serving as mayor of Piran, a city and municipality in Slovenian Istria in south-western Slovenia.
RUSSIA:
Jean Gregoire Sagbo:
Jean Gregoire Sagbo is a Benin-born Russian real estate agent and politician. His position is councilor of Novozavidovo in Konakovsky District, Tver Oblast.
Councilman of Novozavidovo, a rural community, about 65 miles North of Moscow.
germany:
John Ehret:
Germany's First modern Elected Black Mayor
The mayor of Mauer, elected in 2012. He is the "first 'African' elected mayor in Germany in modern times"
ALSO
Karamba Diaby
An alum of the Cheikh Anta Diop University, he left Senegal to study chemistry in East Germany in 1985 and stayed past the reunification of Germany, after which he became more involved in political and social activism.
tOn September 22, 2013, Diaby was elected to the Bundestag as a Social Democratic Party of Germany candidate from Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt.
Diaby currently serves as deputy chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and as full member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment.
Dr. rer. nat. Karamba Diaby, SPDDiplom-ChemikerGeboren am 27. November 1961 in Marsassoum/Senegal; verheiratet; zwei Kinder.1982 bis 1984 Hochschulstudium, Universität Dakar (Senegal); 1985 bis 1986 Deutschkurs am Herder-Institut der Universität Leipzig; 1986 bis 1991 Chemiestudium, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; 1992 bis 1996 Promotionsstudium, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
Charles M. Huber
German politician and actor, perhaps most notable for playing Henry Johnson in the German crime series Der Alte.
He was one of the first two Bundestag members of African ancestry, alongside Karamba Diaby, who were both elected on September 23, 2013. Huber is a member of the Christian Democratic Union and was elected in the federal state of Hesse
Finland:
Jani Toivola:
Finland’s 1st Black Parliamentarian
Until Toivola got elected in 2011, there wasn’t a single black member of Finland’s parliament.
Electoral district: Electoral District of Uusimaa 20.04.2011 -
Present memberships in committees: Education and Culture Committee (member) 09.06.2015 -
Toivola is also openly gay.
