About Tupoka Ogette
Tupoka Ogette was born in Leipzig in 1980, the daughter of a Tanzanian agricultural student and a German maths student. Just before the Berlin Wall fell, Ogette emigrated with her mother to West Berlin, where she lived until she finished high school. She has a master’s degree in African studies and German as a Foreign Language from the University of Leipzig, and another in international business from the Grenoble Graduate School of Business. Since 2012, Tupoka Ogette has worked internationally as an anti-racism facilitator. She has also won multiple awards as a podcaster and Der Spiegel bestselling author.
