List of Famous people with last name Ayim

May Ayim

Sylvia Brigitte Gertrud Opitz

First Name May

Last Name Ayim

Born on May 3, 1960

Died on August 9, 1996 (aged 36)

Born in Germany

May Ayim is the pen name of May Opitz ; she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German student and Ghanaian medical student, she was adopted by a white German family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen name.

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