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Afro-Colombian memoir
Afro-Latin American history
Author_Paula Moreno
Black diaspora
Black women in politics
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cultural politics
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feminism and politics
global feminism
political memoir
race and power
representation and identity
social justice memoir
women in government
women of colour leadership
Product details
- ISBN 9781913175986
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2026
- Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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At twenty-eight, Paula Moreno became Colombia's youngest-ever Minister of Culture and the first Afro-Colombian woman to hold a ministerial post. Her appointment made international headlines, but it also exposed the racial, gendered and political fault lines running through the country's institutions.
In The Power of the Invisible, Moreno weaves memoir, political testimony and cultural reflection to explore what it means to wield power as someone long excluded from it. Moving between her upbringing, her time in office and the global networks of Black and Afro-diasporic solidarity that shaped her leadership, she reveals how visibility can be both a breakthrough and a burden.
First published in Spanish and now updated for a new English-language edition, this is a searching, clear-eyed account of race, representation and the unfinished work of equality, written from inside the state, but grounded in lived experience.
In The Power of the Invisible, Moreno weaves memoir, political testimony and cultural reflection to explore what it means to wield power as someone long excluded from it. Moving between her upbringing, her time in office and the global networks of Black and Afro-diasporic solidarity that shaped her leadership, she reveals how visibility can be both a breakthrough and a burden.
First published in Spanish and now updated for a new English-language edition, this is a searching, clear-eyed account of race, representation and the unfinished work of equality, written from inside the state, but grounded in lived experience.
Paula Moreno is celebrated as Colombia's youngest and first Black woman minister and as the youngest and first Afro-Latina member of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees and the former chairwoman of the Program Committee. As the president of Corporacion Manos Visibles, she directs one of Latin America's foremost NGOs championing racial equality. Her work also extends globally as she pioneers initiatives across eleven countries with significant Afro-descendant populations.
