Filomena Araújo Embaló[1] (born 1956) is an Angolan-born Bissau-Guinean writer.
[2] Filomena Embaló was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1956 to parents from Cape Verde.
[5] The 1998–1999 civil war in Guinea-Bissau sent Embaló into an identity crisis,[3] which she explores in her first novel, Tiara, published in 1999.
[6][7] The first novel to be published by a Bissau-Guinean woman, Tiara deals with the fallout of colonialism in a fictionalized African country.
[2] She has worked as a civil servant at home and abroad,[10] at NGOs[8] including the Latin Union before its dissolution in 2012,[1] and as a diplomat.