The long shadow of tropical Francoism: Colonial historiography, nationalism, ethnicity and the construction of Equatorial Guinea's own history

Abstract

The national history of all African countries is largely indebted to colonial historiography. In the case of Equatorial Guinea, its nationalist history draws on the history of Spain, thus becoming affected by the peculiarities of Franco’s regime. Moreover, the trail left by Francoist theories and by other colonial theses can be traced in the historiography created by the different ethnic groups of the country seeking to diverge from the homogenizing nationalist discourse.