Monica Macias: Black Girl from Pyongyang [2023] paperback ZSTAT from the British Isles to

from the British Isles to North Africa

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Monica Macias: Black Girl from Pyongyang [2023] paperback ZSTAT from the British Isles toIn 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was transplanted from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea. 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. Within months, her father was executed in a military coup; her mother became unreachable. Effectively orphaned, she and two siblings had to make their life in Pyongyang. At