مونيكا مرسياس, ابنة ديكتاتور غينيا الاستوائية التى رباها ديكتاتور كوريا الشمالية

Quote: On the dust jacket of Monica Macias’s memoir, Black Girl from Pyongyang, there’s an extraordinary photograph of her – then aged 5, in a white, frilly dress – flanked by the two men she considers her fathers. To her right, in a suit and tie and leaning on a cane, is her biological father, Francisco Macias Nguema, known as Macias, the first president of Equatorial Guinea, whose entry in Wikipedia describes him as “one of the most brutal dictators in history”. On her left in a Mao jacket is the man who effectively, though distantly, brought her up: Kim Il-sung, then the “Great Leader” of North Korea, whose human rights record was deemed “catastrophic” by Amnesty. “I also consider Kim Il-sung my adoptive father,” she says. “He raised me. If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have had an education. Who knows what would have happened to me؟” Today, Monica Macias lives in a south London suburb and works on the shop floor of a well-known clothes chain. No customer could even begin to guess her extraordinary childhood divided between two countries that were among the worst in terms of political rights and civil liberties, effectively parentless from the age of 7 and brought up in a military boarding school.