Author: Aurora Vergara Figueroa

Paula Moreno’s The Power of the Invisible is a memoir that operates simultaneously as personal testimony, political critique and ethical reflection on leadership. First published in Spanish in 2018 and now available in an expanded English-language edition, the book narrates Moreno’s trajectory as a young Afrodescendant Colombian woman who unexpectedly became Minister of Culture at the age of twenty-eight. It places that personal experience within a longer genealogy of Afrodescendant resilience, matriarchal strength and collective struggle. More than an account of individual success, The Power of the Invisible interrogates how power is accessed, exercised and perceived when it is embodied by those historically excluded from it.