You might want to check this story (no picture) of a man from Camerun, fighting in Gallipoli as a German officer:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Douala-Bell
This is a black driver who is said to have accompanied Lettow-Vorbeck when returning to Germany:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=72870
This is a black Prussian soldier, pre-WW1:
http://www.welt.de/regionales/berlin/article1328452/Wie-ein-Afrikaner-zu-einer-preussischen-Uniform-kam.html