![]() ![]() ![]() Optimistic yet unflinching, Monica's astonishing and unique story challenges us to see the world through different eyes. Born in Equatorial Guinea in 1970, only two. Now out of exile and in her 40s, Monique Macas often depicts her unconventional upbringing as a black African adolescent in articles and memoirs. 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. Macías, as a girl, in the uniform of the North Korean army, next to a highway near Pyongyang. Currently an author, Monique Macas was one of the only foreign students at the prestigious Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, North Korea. 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. 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. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was transplanted from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea. In March 2023, Macas released her second memoir, Black Girl from Pyongyang, which was published by Duckworth Publishers. The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the protection of President Kim Il Sung. In March 2023, Macías released her second memoir, Black Girl from Pyongyang, which was published by Duckworth Publishers. ![]()
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