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Obono has published two novels in Spanish: Las mujeres hablan mucho y mal (2019), La albina del dinero (2017), Yo no quería ser madre (2016), La Bastarda (2016). All works deal with the themes of women's rights, gender and sexuality. Obono has been described as one of the bravest writers due to her confrontation of these issues. Her work is also concerned with legacies of Spanish colonisation in Africa and she is an expert on the history of 'Spanish Guinea'. Her work makes an important contribution to black African, Spanish-speaking, Atlantic cultures.

La Bastarda is the first novel by a woman from Equatorial Guinea to be translated into English. Due to its lesbian protagonist, the book is currently banned in Equatorial Guinea. Translated by Lawrence Schimel, an extract is included in the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby).

Obono has a degree in Political Science & Journalism awarded by the University of Murcia and later studied there for an MA in International Development. She is a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the UNGE (National University of Equatorial Guinea) in Malabo, as well as teaching since 2013 in the Afro-Hispanic Studies Center of the UNED. She is currently studying for an PhD at the University of Salamanca looking at gender and equality. Obono has written on how women's lives in Spanish-speaking Africa have been visualised through postcolonial and African perspectives.

Trifonia Melibea Obono (born 27 November 1982 in Afaetom, Evinayong, Equatorial Guinea) is a novelist, political scientist, academic and LGBTQI+ activist. Her novel La Bastarda is the first novel by a female Equatorial Guinean writer to be translated into English.