Equatorial Guinea

u can find little news of this small country on newspaper.but it doesn't mean it's an uneventful paradise.(on contrast, the millitary and political dictator is awful...)
a tribe moved in Equatorial Guinea in12th centuries and since the slave trade period,the local tribe showed their lukewarm attitude(i may say,hostility)towards coloniers,preventing a wholesale occupation of the area.
there's on small island outside Cameroon----it's the most important centre for slave trading in 18th for europeans.profitable cocoa plantation made this island into Portuguese most important possession in Africa.through the period of spanish ruling,large inland remained unexplored till 1920s.although they gained the independence in 1968, the spanish left the country virtually bankrupted.
they gained independence in 1968(partially autonomy,anyway),but the president(which was elected in the state of emergency)was a awful dictator.he even declared himself as 'the life leader',and was well underway on a campaign of terror and brutality on a par with the leader in Republic of Africa Union and Uganda.many thousands of people were tortured and sent to prison.schools and churches were forced to close and priests were arrested.say,he banned private fishing,then he destroy every boat he found.for several year, Equatorial Guinea was effectively closed off from outside world.a coup broke up in 1979 eventually,but at that time, two thirds of people was either fled abroad or killed.
its road to multi-party democracy is also torturous.old habbits died hard. vote-digging was rampant.the US government declared its national election in 1993 as 'parody of democracy'.the arrestment of oppositions delivered the truth of 'democracy' there.
the discovery of oil did transform the social and political landscape there.however,as the revenue of oil is only keeping secret by the government,no little and precious change to ordernary people.
in 2001,eight different opposed parties formed a 'government-in-exile' in spain. but in 2003,the government called them back home to 'register'and caught 68 people for allegedly plotting for coup. six months later, they won the election again unanimously,of course!