First Black Man to win a Seat in Germany Parliament

A chemist and an actor .Both with family roots in Senegal have become Germany's first black federal lawmakers, according to official election results released Monday.

They were among 34 lawmakers with immigrant backgrounds to win seats in Sunday's election, up from 21 in the previous term, said the Migration Media Service, a group that provides facts and figures on immigration in Germany.

Although nearly one in five of Germany's 80 million people are immigrants, or the children or grandchildren of immigrants, relatively few have made it into the federal legislature. Until now there were no black lawmakers in Parliament, despite more than 500,000 people of recent African origin believed to be living in Germany.

"My election into the German Parliament is of historical importance," said Karamba Diaby, a Senegalese-born chemist who moved to the city of Halle in 1986 after receiving a scholarship to study in communist East Germany.

The 51-year-old, who gained German citizenship in 2001, said his priority would be to promote equal opportunities in education. "Every child born in Germany should have the chance to be successful in school regardless of their social background or the income of their parents," he said.

The other black lawmaker elected Sunday was Charles M. Huber, a 56-year-old actor born in Munich to a Senegalese father and a German mother. Huber is a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, which won the election with 41.5 percent of the vote.

Merkel's party also now has its first Muslim lawmaker in the Bundestag. Cemile Giousouf was elected in the western town of Hagen. The 35-year-old was born in Germany to Turkish immigrant parents.

I predict a Nigerian will win a seat in Germany sooner or later .
Source: Huff post

Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto V, one of the most anticipated video games of the year, has beaten sales figures posted by previous installments in the violent and controversial adventure game series. The new game generated more than $800 million in sales Tuesday on its first day on store shelves.

Take-Two Interactive Software, the publisher of the game, said those first-day sales were the biggest for the company and the Grand Theft Auto series, which seems to have lost little appeal although the first edition was released 16 years ago.

The last major version of the game, Grand Theft Auto IV, had $310 million in opening day sales in 2008, and more than $500 million in its first week.

Grand Theft Auto V generated more than $800 million in sales on its first day on store shelves.

The new version has received glowing reviews, including from The New York Times, which called it the "best plotted, most playable, character-driven, fictionally coherent entry" in the history of the series.
Most reviews gave the Game a Five Star Ratings .

Source: # NY TIMES #