Trifonia Melibea Obono | |
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 Obono in 2016 | |
| Born | Trifonia Melibea Obono Ntutumu Obono [1] 27 November 1982 Afaetom, Evinayong, Equatorial Guinea |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, academic and activist |
Trifonia Melibea Obono Ntutumu Obono (born 27 November 1982) is an Equatorial Guinean novelist, political scientist, academic and LGBT activist. Her novel La Bastarda is the first novel by a female Equatorial Guinean writer to be translated into English.
Obono has a degree in Political Science & Journalism awarded by the University of Murcia in Spain and later studied there for an MA in International Development. [2] She is a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the UNGE (National University of Equatorial Guinea) in Malabo, [3] as well as teaching since 2013 in the Afro-Hispanic Studies Center of the UNED. [3] She is currently studying for an PhD at the University of Salamanca looking at gender and equality. [4] Obono has written on how women's lives in Spanish-speaking Africa have been visualised through postcolonial and African perspectives. [5]
Obono has published four novels in Spanish: Las mujeres hablan mucho y mal (2019), [6] La albina del dinero (2017), [7] Yo no quería ser madre (2016), [8] La Bastarda (2016). [9] All works deal with the themes of women's rights, gender and sexuality. Obono has been described as one of the bravest writers due to her confrontation of these issues. [10] Her work is also concerned with legacies of Spanish colonisation in Africa [11] and she is an expert on the history of "Spanish Guinea". [12] Her work makes an important contribution to black African, Spanish-speaking, Atlantic cultures. [13]
La Bastarda is the first novel by a woman from Equatorial Guinea to be translated into English. [14] Due to its lesbian protagonist, the book is currently banned in Equatorial Guinea. Translated by Lawrence Schimel, an extract is included in the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby). [15]
Obono is outspoken about LGBTQ+ human rights issues in Equatorial Guinea. [16] She uses her literary work as activism, by writing LGBTIQ+ characters, she provides representation for others are not heterosexual. [17] She has written about the taboos that mean that homosexuality is not discussed in her country and uses her global platforms to call these out as false. [18] Obono herself is bisexual. [19]
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María Pilar Nsue Angüe Osa was a noted Equatoguinean writer and Minister of Education and Culture.
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The National University of Equatorial Guinea is a public institution of higher education, being one of the main universities of Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa.
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La Bastarda is a 2016 Spanish-language novel by Trifonia Melibea Obono. The book is banned in Equatorial Guinea. The book tells the story of Okomo, an orphan who was born a bastard whose mother died during childbirth, and lives in a traditional village in Equatorial Guinea that is about a day's walk from Gabon. She is forced to confront her culture's attitudes about gender roles, requirements for women to have sex for the purpose of reproduction at the direction of men, and sexuality. After being outed, she eventually retreats to the sanctuary of the freedom of the forest.
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Ángela María Nzambi Bakale is an Equatorial Guinean writer, feminist and human rights activist based in Valencia, Spain. She has published three books: Ngulsi (2012), Biyaare (2015) and Mayimbo (2019); the later receiving the International Justo Bolekia Boleká Prize for African Literature in 2019.
Elena Obono Nkuadum Oyana is an Equatorial Guinean footballer who plays as a forward for Huracanes FC and the Equatorial Guinea women's national team.
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The Sial Pigmalión Publishing Group is a Spanish publisher founded in 1997 based in Madrid.
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Hispanic Africa is a cultural region integrated by the territories and countries of Africa where Spanish has an official presence. The people from this region are called "Hispanic Africans".
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