Mo Asumang

Asumang was born on 13 June 1963 to a Ghanaian father and German mother.^[1][2] She studied Visual Communication at the University of Kassel.^[2] Between 1997 and 2000 she presented the television show Liebe Sünde on German TV.^[3] She made her directing debut with the documentary Roots Germania, which was nominated for a Grimme-Preis in 2008.^[2][4][5] Around the Football World Cup 2010, she made a documentary about South Africa called Road to Rainbow - Willkommen in Südafrika.^[2]

In 2014, Asumang created the documentary Die Arier (The Aryans).^[1] As one of the first black women on German television, she was targeted by racists.^[6] To address racism, she confronted racists in Germany, and travelled to the United States, where she had conversations with Ku Klux Klan members.^[6][7] The documentary was also nominated for a Grimme-Preis.^[8]

In 2016, Asumang wrote a book about her identity search and experiences meeting racists, Neo-Nazis and Ku-Klux-Klan members face to face, titled Mo und die Arier: Allein unter Rassisten und Neonazis (Mo and the Aryans: Alone among racists and Neo-Nazis).^[9]