Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

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The black girl from Pyongyang; the book still does not have a Spanish publisher), about her 15 years in North Korea.

The African girl raised by Kim Il-sung - BBC

So he employed a Spanish teacher to ensure she kept up with her native language, but she refused to learn it and cleaved ever closer to Kim’s dictatorial regime, until the incident with the Syrian student and the newspaper. Once, missing her siblings, who by now had moved to university halls, she ran away in the night, walking for hours to find them, which resulted in a huge dressing-down.According to various sources, anywhere from 20,000 to 80,000 of the roughly 200,000 to 300,000 people living in the country were killed under his regime, with tens of thousands more fleeing the country. When there was a trial at all, dissidents faced Kangaroo courts organized by the JMM militia, [59] as almost all judges in the country fled or were jailed during Macías Nguema's rule. Owning anything related to Christianity became a reason for imprisonment due to alleged support for anti-government plots or coup attempts. Not long after I moved to North Korea to study, my father was put on trial in Equatorial Guinea on 24 September 1979, accused of perpetrating atrocities during his time in office, along with other allegations.

Mónica Macías - Wikipedia

Her father was Francisco Macias Nguema, the first president of Equatorial Guinea, west Africa, but she spent most of her childhood in North Korea.Francisco Macías Nguema was born on 1 January 1924, [8] as Mez-m Ngueme at Nfengha, Spanish Guinea, to parents who had been expelled with the rest of their clan from what is today Woleu-Ntem Province, Gabon, [9] at a time when the Spanish Colonial Guard had not yet exerted control over the jungled area.

My childhood in North Korea with Kim Il-sung and how I survived

The book attracted even more recognition and attention, as Macías shared the results of her interviews with about 3,000 people who knew her father, and concluded that he was not guilty of the crimes for which he was executed. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Francisco Macías Nguema]]; see its history for attribution.She told me she hoped people would finally see her life “how it is, without making it up or trying to find what is not there”. Optimistic yet unflinching, Monica’s astonishing and unique story challenges us to see the world through different eyes. At the Iglesia de San Fernando in Malabo a photo of the President was adorned with the statement "God created Equatorial Guinea thanks to Macías".