Based on my understanding of what happened to Equatorial Guinea after independence, being part of Spain with full citizenship would have been a lot better.
"On 7 May 1971, Macías Nguema issued Decree 415, which repealed parts of the 1968 Constitution and granted him "all direct powers of Government and Institutions", including powers formerly held by the legislative and judiciary branches, as well as the cabinet of ministers. On 18 October 1971, Law 1 imposed the death penalty as punishment for threatening the President or the government. Insulting or offending the President or his cabinet was punishable by 30 years in prison. On 14 July 1972, a presidential decree merged all existing political parties into the United National Party (later the United National Workers' Party), with Macías Nguema as
President for Life of both nation and party. In a plebiscite
held on 29 July 1973, the 1968 Constitution was replaced with a new document that gave Macías Nguema absolute power and formally made his party the only one legally permitted.
Macías Nguema declared private education subversive, and banned it entirely with Decree 6 on 18 March 1975.
[4]
During his presidency, his country was nicknamed "the
Dachau of Africa".
[5] He was known to order entire families and villages executed.
Three important pillars of his rule were the United National Workers' Party, the
Juventud en Marcha con Macías militia/youth group, and the
Esangui clan of
Río Muni. The country's instruments of repression (military, presidential bodyguard) were entirely controlled by Macías Nguema's relatives and clan members. The president's paranoid actions included mandating the death of those who wore spectacles,
[6] banning use of the word "intellectual" and destroying boats to stop his people fleeing from his rule
[2] (fishing was banned).
[7] The only road out of the country on the mainland was also mined.
[8] He Africanised his name to
Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong in 1976 after demanding that the rest of the Equatoguinean population replace their Hispanic names with African names. He also banned Western medicines, stating that they were un-African.
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