Geen roze in een regenboog
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Angel Patricks Amegbe
Writer · Performing Poet · Visual Storyteller
Stories of identity, womanhood, migration and healing.
Meet the author
Angel Patricks Amegbe
Angel Patricks Amegbe is a Nigerian-Belgian writer, performing poet and visual storyteller whose work explores diasporic identity, wellbeing, migration, womanhood, trauma and healing.
She is the author of The Days of Silence (Masobe, 2021), No Pink in a Rainbow (Masobe, 2024), and the poetry collection SUNDANCE.
Moving between fiction, poetry, performance and visual storytelling, Angel creates work that gives space to experiences and voices too often left unheard. Her writing is deeply human: intimate yet universal, vulnerable yet resilient.
She lives in Belgium with her family.
The featured novel
Geen roze in een regenboog
Not simply a story of grief — but a song of survival.
A story about women who refuse to disappear inside their trauma, about love that endures, and about the extraordinary persistence of hope.
After years of fertility treatments, Naomi, a Nigerian woman living in Belgium, finally becomes pregnant.
She has a loving husband, a growing child inside her and the promise of a new beginning in a country far from home. For a moment, life appears to be looking her directly in the eye.
But beneath that promise lie the fragments of a past that refuses to be forgotten — and a future that suddenly begins to slip away.
In this emotionally charged and deeply honest novel, Angel Patricks Amegbe weaves migration, loss, motherhood and identity into a mosaic of language, memory and belonging.
Naomi's journey becomes something larger than one woman's story: a search for recognition, healing and the right to experience both pain and joy in their fullest colours.
International recognition
Geen roze in een regenboog / No Pink in a Rainbow was shortlisted for the CANEX Prize, celebrating outstanding African literature.
The world behind the novel
Angel's work explores what happens when personal memory, cultural identity and the experience of migration intersect.
Her characters inhabit the spaces between countries, expectations, identities and generations — searching for ways to belong without losing themselves.
- Migration
- Motherhood
- Identity
- Loss
- Belonging
- Trauma
- Healing
- Hope
Angel's voice
Storytelling as a space for dialogue
For Angel Patricks Amegbe, storytelling extends beyond the written page.
As a performing poet and visual storyteller, she uses language, performance and creative expression to explore experiences that are often difficult to articulate.
She is passionate about amplifying unheard voices and has collaborated with literary festivals and creative initiatives that use storytelling as a catalyst for dialogue, connection and change.
Her work places particular emphasis on mental wellbeing, identity and collective healing.
A safe space
Poetry and Tea
Angel founded Poetry and Tea in 2021 as a creative and safe space for expression, conversation and collective healing.
It reflects a philosophy that runs throughout her work: that storytelling can create connection, that vulnerability can become strength, and that giving people space to speak can itself become an act of healing.
Her poetry
SUNDANCE
Poetry on identity, migration, womanhood and becoming.
In her poetry collection SUNDANCE, Angel Patricks Amegbe explores the complexities of identity, migration, womanhood, self-discovery and healing.
Moving fluidly between poetry and narrative-like prose, the collection creates an intimate and introspective journey through memory, emotion and personal transformation.
Layered personal narratives invite the reader to reflect on what it means to leave, belong, change, heal and ultimately rediscover oneself.
€20 · 80 pages
Books by Angel
SUNDANCE
Poetry · €20 · 80 pages
Angel Patricks Amegbe
Writer. Poet. Storyteller.
Stories that give voice to what is often left unspoken.