Ayim, May

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May Ayim (geboren als Brigitte Sylvia Andler am 3. Mai 1960 in Hamburg; † 9. August 1996 in Berlin) war eine deutsche Dichterin, Pädagogin und Aktivistin der afrodeutschen Bewegung. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim


May Ayim (3 May 1960 in Hamburg – 9 August 1996 in Berlin) is the pen name of May Opitz (born Brigitte Sylvia Andler); she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German dancer and Ghanaian medical student, she lived with a white German foster family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim


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