In his mid-20s, he came to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) thanks to a scholarship, studied chemistry at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. From 2009 to 2015, he was also a city councilor in Halle an der Saale and worked as an advisor in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the state of Saxony-Anhalt from 2011 to 2013. Karamba Diaby, born in 1961 in Marsassoum, Senegal, was elected to the German Bundestag in 2013, the first black person born in Africa to do so.
