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. Ms Macias, who left North Korea in 1994 and spends time with family in Spain, still speaks Korean as her first language after those formative years in Pyongyang with children of the elite.

Monica Marcias: How a girl from Equatorial Guinea was raised

Comments about structural racism feel tired and clichéd - whereas Monica could have had a fascinating perspective as someone with very mixed-race antecedents who has moved from Africa to Asia to Europe, and who speaks a variety of languages. For all her claims about the importance of education, there's not much evidence in here of critical thinking above a most basic level.a b "Equatorial Guinea Reports Coup". The New York Times. Associated Press. 6 August 1979. p.1. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023 . Retrieved 30 August 2021.

Fond Recollections of Dictators, Colored Later by the Lessons Fond Recollections of Dictators, Colored Later by the Lessons

Situación jurídica de las propiedades españolas en Guinea". El País. 24 August 1979 . Retrieved 8 February 2017.Instead, she concluded, Macias’s reputation was the result of a powerful campaign by his enemies. She maintains that if her father had stolen his country’s oil wealth, her mother would not have sold plantains on the streets to survive, and she, his daughter, would not have had to support herself through low-paid jobs. “I am able to say my full name now.”