Bubi people
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The Bubi people are a Bantu ethnic group indigenous to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. Once the majority group in the region, the population experienced a sharp decline due to war and disease during
An 1875 engraving of the Bubi people
Protest against the persecution of the Bubi culture in front of the Embassy of Equatorial Guinea in Madrid
Bisila Bokoko
Francisco Macías Nguema
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Francisco Macías Nguema, often referred to as Macías Nguema or simply Macías, was an Equatoguinean politician who served as the first president of Equatorial Guinea from the country's gaining of indep
Bubi people
…the influence of the Bubi has greatly diminished, and they are now a minority upon the island, as well as in the nation of Equatorial Guinea itself. Francisco Macías Nguema was the first President of Equatorial Guinea, from 1968 until his overthrow in 1979. During his presidency, he declared himself a "Hitlerian-Marxist…
Macías Nguema in 1968
Signing of the independence of Spanish Guinea by the then Spanish minister Manuel Fraga together with the new Equatorial Guinean president Macías Nguema on 12 October 1968
Macías Nguema depicted on the 1969 1,000 pesetas banknote.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Macías Nguema's nephew and leader of the coup against him