Obono has a degree in Political Science & Journalism awarded by the University of Murcia in Spain and later studied there for an MA in International Development.

[2] She is a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the UNGE (National University of Equatorial Guinea) in Malabo,[3] as well as teaching since 2013 in the Afro-Hispanic Studies Center of the UNED.

[4] Obono has written on how women's lives in Spanish-speaking Africa have been visualised through postcolonial and African perspectives.

[12] Her work makes an important contribution to black African, Spanish-speaking, Atlantic cultures.

Translated by Lawrence Schimel, an extract is included in the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby).