She has written several books about African food and culture, and is known for her work in transcribing and translating Beninese folk tales and stories for adults and children.

[2] Agboton was born in Porto-Novo, in Benin, West Africa, where she learned to write in her native Gun language, as well as in French.

She met her husband, Manuel Carrera, and moved with him to Catalania at the age of 18, in 1978, and studied Hispanic philology at the University of Barcelona, as well as learning Catalan and Spanish.

[3] In 2005, she published an autobiographical book in Spanish, titled Más allá del mar de arena (Beyond the Sea of Sand) in which she recounted memories of her father, a school teacher and social worker in Benin.

[6] Schimel also translated poems by her that were included in the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby).