![]() ![]() Orders placed via our website can be paid using any of the following methods: ‘ Black Girl from Pyongyang tells a heart-warming story of conflicting emotions. ‘A fascinating account of a woman’s quest for autonomy, and her bravery and determination to find the truth’ But beyond that, it is a stunning treatise on politics, power and culture’įLORENCE OLAJIDE, bestselling author of Coconut ‘Monica’s is an evocative memoir of a remarkable childhood followed by a decades-long search around the globe for her identity. ![]() **PRAISE FOR BLACK GIRL FROM PYONGYANG ** 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. 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. ![]()
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