A report on Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and Igbo people

Bronze from the ninth century town of Igbo Ukwu, now at the British Museum
Portuguese rule in Equatorial Guinea lasted from the arrival of Fernão do Pó (Fernando Pó) in 1472 until the 1778 Treaty of El Pardo.
Bamum script is a writing system developed by King Njoya in the late 19th century.
An Igbo man with facial scarifications, known as ichi, early 20th century
Map of the Spanish possessions in 1897, before the Treaty of Paris (1900).
Three Igbo women in the early 20th century
Borders after the agreement of 1900 on the land that would become Spanish Guinea, until the independence of 1968.
Former president Ahmadou Ahidjo ruled from 1960 until 1982.
Flag of the Republic of Biafra (1967–1970), sometimes regarded as the ethnic flag of the Igbo
Corisco in 1910.
Paul Biya has ruled the country since 1982.
Anklet beaten from a solid brass bar of the type once fashionable among Igbo women. Now in the collection of Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The leg-tube extends approx 7 cm each side of the 35 cm disc.
Inaugural flight with Iberia from Madrid to Bata, 1941.
Unity Palace – Cameroon Presidency
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is the most popular and renowned novel that deals with the Igbo and their traditional life.
Centro Cultural de España (Cultural Centre of Spain) in Malabo.
A statue of a chief in Bana, West Region
Thatching with palm leaf mats, early 20th century
Signing of the independence of Equatorial Guinea by the then Spanish minister Manuel Fraga together with the new Equatorial Guinean president Macías Nguema on October 12, 1968.
President Paul Biya with U.S. President Barack Obama in 2014
Traditional Igbo house/room from the Anambra area, 1967
Francisco Macías Nguema, first president of Equatorial Guinea in 1968 and became a dictator until he was overthrown in a coup d'état in 1979.
Military vehicles during a parade
Wooden sculpture of Ikenga, an Alusi, in the Musée du Quai Branly.
Obiang and U.S. president Obama with their wives in 2014.
Cameroon is divided into 10 regions.
The Holy Ghost depicted as a dove on a relief in Onitsha
Highway construction in Ciudad de la Paz in 2010. Ciudad de la Paz will be the future capital of Equatorial Guinea.
Volcanic plugs dot the landscape near Rhumsiki, Far North Region.
A modern Igbo wedding, Nnewi, Nigeria
Presidential palace of Teodoro Obiang in Malabo.
Elephants in Waza National Park
Men wearing contemporary Isiagu with the ceremonial Igbo men's hat okpu agu
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School children in Cameroon
striped men's hat
According to the BBC, President Obiang Nguema "has been described by rights organisations as one of Africa's most brutal dictators."
Life expectancy in Cameroon
Yam porridge (or yam pottage) is an Igbo dish known as awaị.
An Antonov An-72P of the Armed Forces of Equatorial Guinea on lift off.
Dutch bulls and cows at Wallya community during the rainy season in Cameroon
Igbo people celebrating the New Yam festival in Dublin, Ireland
Köppen climate classification of Equatorial Guinea
Douala seaport
A proportional representation of Equatorial Guinea exports, 2019.
Cameroonian women on Women's Day Celebration
Gepetrol Tower in Malabo 2013.
The homes of the Musgum, in the Far North Region, are made of earth and grass.
Torre de La Libertad ("Freedom Tower").
Map of the region's indigenous languages
Malabo International Airport (Aeropuerto de Malabo in Spanish), en Punta Europa, island of Bioko.
Dancers greet visitors to the East Region.
Evolution of the Equatoguinean population between 1960 and 2017. Population in thousands of inhabitants.
Plantains and "Bobolo" (made from cassava) served with Ndolè (meat and shrimp)
Equatorial Guinean children of Bubi descent.
Cameroonian fashion is varied and often mixes modern and traditional elements. Note the wearing of sun glasses, Monk shoes, sandals, and a Smartwatch.
Floral inscription with the name of the country in Spanish in Malabo.
A woman weaves a basket near Lake Ossa, Littoral Region. Cameroonians practise such handicrafts throughout the country.
Santa Isabel Cathedral in Malabo
Cameroon faces Germany at Zentralstadion in Leipzig, 17 November 2004.
Ministry of Education, Science and Sports (Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Deportes in Spanish).
Our Lady of Victories Cathedral, catholic church in Yaoundé
The port of Malabo.
Edition of the television magazine Malabeando at the Cultural Centre of Spain in Malabo.
Estadio de Bata in Bata.

It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south.

- Cameroon

Large ethnic Igbo populations are found in Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea, as well as outside Africa.

- Igbo people

The mainland region, Río Muni, is bordered by Cameroon on the north and Gabon on the south and east.

- Equatorial Guinea

The French only briefly permitted recruitment in Cameroun, and the main source of labour came to be Igbo smuggled in canoes from Calabar in Nigeria.

- Equatorial Guinea

Wrappers and loincloths are used extensively by both women and men but their use varies by region, with influences from Fulani styles more present in the north and Igbo and Yoruba styles more often in the south and west.

- Cameroon

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