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.
