Francisco MacÃas, a native of Mongomo, was the first President of Equatorial Guinea, serving from October 12, 1968, until he was overthrown in a military coup on August 3, 1979. He came from a Fang ethnic group, the largest ethnic group in the country. MacÃas’s early life is poorly documented, but it is known that he worked as a clerk in the Spanish colonial administration and later as a...
Pioneering the Presidency: Equatorial Guinea’s First Presidential Leader
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