Amalialú Posso Figueroa

Amalialú Posso Figueroa is a writer, storyteller, psychotherapist, and educator who has dedicated her life to promoting the oral tradition of Colombia’s Pacific Coast, particularly of women of African descent. She was born in Quibdó, Chocó, in 1947. Her first book, Vean vé, mis nanas negras (2001), has been published in ten editions in Colombia. She received the Guachupé de Oro Prize from the Fundación Cultural Colombia Negra in 2017, the Nelson Mandela Prize in 2015, the Orden de la Democracia Simón Bolívar in 2009, and the Vida y Obra award from the government of Chocó in 2007.