Aminata Camara Maya K. Lafia T. Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class highly educated
women in Germany and come from families of mixed African European heritages. This ethnographic
study traces the coming of age as person of African descent in Germany born in the 1980s with a
focus on the city of Frankfurt. Silvia Wojczewski follows the paths of five women and shows how
the practice of travelling is used as a way to connect to transnational families and to an
Afrodiasporic heritage. Zooming in on five lives she reveals the ways in which class diaspora
and kinship relations influence how the women understand themselves and their position in the
world.
