![]() ![]() Optimistic yet unflinching, Monica's astonishing and unique story challenges us to see the world through different eyes. ![]() At military boarding school, Monica learned to mix with older children, speak fluent Korean and handle weapons on training exercises.Īfter university, she went in search of her roots, passing through Beijing, Seoul, Madrid, Guinea, New York and finally London - forced at every step to reckon with damning perceptions of her adoptive homeland. Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity, Monica Macias (Duckworth, May 2023) I n 1960, the Soviet Union founded a university in Moscowsoon to be called the Patrice Lumumba Universitywith the aim of educating students from newly independent states, many of whom came from African countries. Effectively orphaned, she and two siblings had to make their life in Pyongyang. Within months, her father was executed in a military coup her mother became unreachable. This memoir is about Monica Macias, daughter of the famed Francisco Macas of Equatorial Guinea, a man known. She was sent by her father Francisco, the first president of post-Independence Equatorial Guinea, to be educated under the guardianship of his ally, Kim Il Sung. Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity. ![]() In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was transplanted from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was transplanted from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea. ![]() The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the protection of President Kim Il Sung. ![]()
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