Her play has been staged by African Theater Workshop and she is the 2018 winner of the Random Thoughts writing Prize. Carolina Maria de Jesus was an Afro-Brazilian woman who not only defied the odds but also used the power of telling one’s story to change the lives of others and also change her own life. Secondly, because her family was so poor, Carolina could not make friends as much as she might have wanted to. The family was also attacked by people from the slum who appeared in her book. Unfortunately, her riches were short-lived and she would move back to the slum where she died on February 13, 1977.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 25, 2019 18:00 UTC