Francisco Macías Nguema: Building the First Fifth-World Country

This video is about Francisco Macias Nguema. He is evil. That is all. Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/Spartan761History... The Sauce: Artucio, Alejandro. "The Trial of Macias in Equatorial Guinea." International Commission of Jurists Publications, November 1979, https://www.icj.org/resource/the-tria.... Baynham, Simon. “Equatorial Guinea: The Terror and the Coup.” The World Today 36:2 (1980): 65–71. Campos, Alicia. “The Decolonization of Equatorial Guinea: The Relevance of the International Factor.” The Journal of African History 44:1 (2003): 95–116. Chira, Adriana. “A Forgotten Colony: Equatorial Guinea and Spain.” EuropeNow, 1 March 2018, https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018.... Fegley, Randall. Equatorial Guinea: An African Tragedy. Peter Lang, 1989. Kenyon, Paul. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa. Head of Zeus, 2018. McFerson, Hazel M. “Governance and Hyper-Corruption in Resource-Rich African Countries.” Third World Quarterly 30:8 (2009): 1529–47. Nunez, Alejandra. “The Hidden History of Equatorial Guinea: Reasons Behind the Silence of the Spanish Press Around Macias Nguema’s Regime (1968-1979).” MA Thesis. Leiden University, 2013. Timestamps: 0:00 The Long Shadow of Imperialism 5:58 The Ladder 11:19 This Land is Your Land 21:54 The Madman’s Gambit 28:18 And Then it Got Worse 43:36 Sic Semper Tyrannis 50:16 The Republic of Ash