The journalist and writer Carmen del Puerto joins the Opinion section of Welcome Africa as a contributor, where she will share her perspective on the African continent.
Passionate about Africa, she has captured her personal connection in works such as "La niña de Lamberéné y otras escenas africanas", an intimate journey through different countries, accompanying texts with evocative images.
His literary work includes stories, tales and poems inspired by African history, art and nature. He also closely follows the Tarifa-Tangier African Film Festival, to which he devotes special admiration.
With a career linked to science and popularisation, for more than three decades she directed communication at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and was a lecturer on the Master's degree in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna.
He has cultivated a hybrid writing that unites literature, science and culture. His experience and sensitivity now enrich the pages of Welcome Africa.
With this collaboration, the media reinforces its commitment to voices that explore Africa from deep, diverse and creative perspectives.
Works: The lost honour of Henrietta Leavitt (theatre); The girl from Lambaréné and other African scenes (travel book); Cosmic species. Between red giants and black holes (popular science); The Wandering Finn. The illicit life of Jan Salakari (novel); Maryola and the starfish (children's story in collaboration with the Red Cross); Ultramarine blue, Yellow suns y Verdejade (anthologies of vintage poems inspired by the works of great artists); Memoirs of a hetaira (historical novel); and These children do NOT exist (stories inspired by images created by his daughter, Laura Porras del Puerto, with an artificial intelligence programme). He maintains his own website and a YouTube channelwith audio poems and illustrated audio stories.