Reflections of a Wayward Boy: Bearing witness to the birth of Equatorial Guinea Terry Bell
The typewriter I had access to was in one of the locked offices and the post office, the only direct contact with the outside world, was closed. I was the only foreign journalist on the island and I couldn’t report on this most anti-climactic birth of a nation. © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved
A subsidised third-class sea voyage in a Spanish colonial supply ship from Cadiz to the last sub-Saharan outpost of once imperial Spain provided an unexpected insight into the realities of race and class. It also gave us some idea of the history, geography and worrying potential of what was to become, in the most anti-climactic circumstances, the world’s newest independent state, Equatorial Guinea. We intended to stay there for just two days, but ended up stranded for more than two months.
Reflections of a Wayward Boy: Bearing witness to the birth of Equatorial Guinea
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