Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

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This week, state media in North Korea criticised a report by a US think-tank on scenarios for the collapse of a reclusive country with a grim record of famine, prison camps and nuclear brinkmanship. Jensen, Geoffrey (2019). "Tyranny, Communism, and U.S. Policy in Equatorial Guinea, 1968–1979". Diplomatic History. Researching her dissertation was psychologically tough. “My imaginary father is very powerful, a hero to me, because I didn’t know him,” she said. She was “frustrated” when she discovered he had declared himself president for life. However, she concluded that there was a “huge discrepancy between the official narrative and what I found out”, she told me. She concedes he was flawed – not the hero she remembered – but is also adamant that “he wasn’t a killer”. He had been faced with impossible choices, she argued: Equatorial Guinea was lawless, closer to a Hobbesian state of nature than a modern state, and the history of his rule was written by his enemies. Shortly before his death, and with few friends left, Macias Nguema turned to North Korea for help and sent his wife and children to Pyongyang, where they would spend the next 15 years.a b Buale Borikó, Emiliano, ed. (1989). El laberinto guineano. Debate político. Madrid: IEPALA Ed. ISBN 978-84-85436-73-6. The relationship between the two fringe states was not unusual in the Cold War tension of the time.

Monica Marcias: How a girl from Equatorial Guinea was raised

She has participated as a keynote speaker in conferences related to North Korea at institutions such as LSE, SOAS, Seoul University, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic and Yale University.Monica likes sharing her personal experiences with others and believes that by mutually exchanging our experiences and knowledge, we can learn from one another while raising awareness and fostering mutual respect. She is confident that this measure of information dissemination can in turn significantly help to narrow social and interstate conflicts. Tyler Christopher dead at 50: Ex-husband of Eva Longoria and actor who appeared on General Hospital and Days of Our Lives passes away following 'a cardiac event in his San Diego apartment' Scafidi, Óscar (2015). Equatorial Guinea. Bradt Travel Guides. ISBN 9781841629254 . Retrieved 13 April 2017. Eburi Palé, José (5 July 2007). "Febrero de 1969: dos provincias españolas bajo el terror" . Retrieved 29 April 2017. a b Caden, Cynthia. GUINEA ECUATORIAL EL AUSCHWITZ DE ÁFRICA (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2016 . Retrieved 6 December 2016.

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She recalls rumours in 1989 of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement and subsequent massacre in Beijing reaching the hallways of North Korean colleges. Macías mantiene que desconocía las matanzas en Guinea Ecuatorial". El País. 27 September 1979 . Retrieved 7 June 2016. Macías, as a girl, in the uniform of the North Korean army, next to a highway near Pyongyang. Personal album of Mónica Macías a b c d Choe Sang-Hun (11 October 2013). "Fond Recollections of Dictators, Colored Later by the Lessons of History". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023 . Retrieved 12 August 2017.Monica left North Korea after graduation and moved to Spain, desperate to learn more about where she came from. Nerín, Gustau (2016). "FRANCISCO MACÍAS: NUEVO ESTADO, NUEVO RITUAL" (PDF). ÉNDOXA. National University of Distance Education (37): 149–168 . Retrieved 22 February 2017. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,120 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization. In 2017, keen to know more about politics and her own past, Macias left the hotel and enrolled in an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy at Soas, University of London. For her dissertation she interviewed over 300 people, many of them from Equatorial Guinea, about her father. Years ago, she had been furious when a journalist accused her of “struggling to condemn” the atrocities committed by her father and Kim. Francisco Macias Nguema is accused of killing 50,000 of his countrymen and forcing over 100,000 people into exile. But Macias was mistrustful of second-hand information and had only vague memories of the man: before she could condemn him, she needed to know the role he played in his country’s violent past. El Jefe de Estado español rechazó una absurda acusación de Macías contra la Guardia Civil" (in Spanish). 9 April 1969 . Retrieved 20 February 2017.

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Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (30 July 2009). " "El derrocamiento de Macías. La caída del tigre" " . Retrieved 24 September 2016. Denuncia al presidente guineano por "liquidar" sin piedad a sus opositores". El País. 20 December 1978 . Retrieved 30 May 2016. Rene Pelissier, "Equatorial Guinea: Autopsy of a Miracle", The Africa Report, Vol. 25, No. 3, May–June 1980.

Alejandro Artucio. The Trial of Macías in Equatorial Guinea. International Commission of Jurists. p.31. Equatorial Guinea 'stops coup attempt by mercenaries' ". BBC News. 3 January 2018. Archived from the original on 16 March 2023 . Retrieved 29 January 2019. Starting in the early 1970s, Macías Nguema also began repressing non-Fang ethnic groups in the country, such as the Bubi people of Santa Isabel (whom he associated with relative wealth and education) and the Annobónese (due to what he felt was too much affection for Spain). Santa Isabel was then militarized (with its inhabitants harassed) [44] and Pagalu (part of Annobón) was cut off from aid during a 1973 cholera epidemic, [45] [46] resulting in around 100 deaths. [20] The prior year, mass arrests had taken place on Annobón after a majority of its electorate voted against Macías Nguema in the 1968 elections. [28] Use of the Fang language was forcibly imposed, with penalties for anyone caught using Spanish [47] [48] [49] or languages belonging to ethnic minorities. [50] Totalitarian dictatorship [ edit ] Growing paranoia and cult of personality [ edit ] years in Pyongyang, Kim Il-sung was my second father]. BBC News 코리아. 2 March 2019. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023 . Retrieved 20 November 2021.