Francisco Macías Nguema

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Francisco Macías Nguema, often mononymously referred to as Macías, was an Equatoguinean politician who served as the first President of Equatorial Guinea from the country's independence in 1968 until his overthrow in 1979. He is widely remembered as one of the most brutal dictators in history.

Macías Nguema in 1968

Prime Minister of Spanish Guinea Bonifacio Ondó Edú, Macías Nguema's main opponent in the 1968 presidential election

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 Ngema depicted on the 1969 1,000 Pesetas banknote.

Spanish Guinea

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Spanish Guinea was a set of insular and continental territories controlled by Spain from 1778 in the Gulf of Guinea and on the Bight of Bonny, in Central Africa. It gained independence in 1968 as Equatorial Guinea.

Spanish possessions in the Gulf of Guinea in 1897.

Río Muni, continental part of Spanish Guinea, 1903.

Corisco in 1910.

Inaugural flight with Iberia from Madrid to Bata in 1941.