![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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. I n 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was transplanted from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea. Monicas is an evocative memoir of a remarkable childhood followed by a decades-long search around the globe for her identity and the truth about her father. In her new book, 'Black Girl from Pyongyang,' Monica Macias writes about growing up in North Korea under the care of leader Kim Il Sung after being sent away by her. ![]() 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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