Not many dictators can claim to have sent their country back to the stone age, but Francisco Macias Nguema certainly tried his best to do just that. Sometimes called “The Pol Pot of Africa” Nguema’s ten year rule of terror turned Equatorial Guinea from a plantation economy into the “Dachau of Africa”.
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Wow! I didn't realise how bad it was & still is. It proves the point that post-colonial African countries are corrupt because The West wants it that way so they & their multi-national companies can make a great deal of money & to hell with the common people.
When your country is only known for this, the oil, and that guy who could barely swim two lengths of the pool at the Sydney Olympics, you've gotta wonder what kind of basket-case nation you're living in. 😬
Let's hear it for Africa!! Haha
Keep it in the family Teodoro 👍
Completely unrelated to this video, but I wanted to let you know there are some GLARING inaccuracies in your video on the tri-state tornado you made a year ago.
Excellent report. Please do Rwanda next.
Raw cannabis isn’t psychoactive when ingested. Shows how stupid he truly was, wasting all that grass..
Any part of Africa – free democratic elections – eh, ok then!
Hooray for decolonialisation!
I do like that you included the fact that he was a monster of Spain's making. Such is the lasting legacy of colonialism.
In my opinion, this man and Pol Pot were the 2 worst leaders of any nation. Never have 2 men worked against the interests of their own countries so hard.
Leave it to the UN to insist on decolonization, then not lift a finger when genocide results.
Got a good narrator voice, maybe a little less monotone, in my opinion. Great video regardless
Making Liberia look good
You need to talk about the Wonga coup attempt now
With Macias Nguema it's like the true proverb says, "…but one sinner destroyeth much good."
I can't imagine how this guy slept at night.
You should cover one of the major mid air collisions in the United States. My recommendation would be the one over New York since it doesn’t get as much attention as other air crashes
Scary how familiar a lot of his behavior was leading up to the regime, stealing up and transferring as much power to himself, trying to make his rule eternal and forbid anyone from leaving– It sounds a LOT like a certain somebody.. A few somebodies. None good.
I more I heard about this guy the more I didn’t like him.
Humans suck.
From one perspective, elections are too risky. Elections allow the insane to take control. And what do they do? They end the elections. Better to not have them in the first place? It just may be the case that a benevolent ruling system is superior. Though with many things up for a vote. Thoughts?
3:50 "Eyebrows must have been raised in Madrid…"
Really? Franco and Hitler were very good friends. Ask the people of Guernica.
"Hitlarian Marxist" is like calling yourself a Christian Atheist. It's contradictory to the highest degree, this man is bonkers in every aspect of his life.
in case anyone's interested… you don't pronounce the 'u' in a name like Nguema. Nn-gema.
i think it's a funny idea that the local Catholic school, established by colonists, would be any type of safe haven for a kid growing up in colonial Africa, especially after a colonist killed his father in front of him. lol what
….equatorial guinea has never had a "free" election and that includes the very first one
Very curious as to the source of EG life expectancy being one of the highest in the region. We have such, such poor internal records of anything pre-colonial and even directly post-colonial, so my immediate reaction to that assertion is wondering who exactly came to that conclusion and by what standards.
First I’ve heard of this horrid man! Very like some other African heads of state…sadly.
the way the current pres is welcomed internationally is the modern manifestation for how little the rest of the world gives a crap about equatorial guinea or just African suffering in general. it took 11 years for the UN to acknowledge what was happening back then and contemporary world leaders turn a blind eye cause they turn a profit on our oil. the world's a gross place and i'm pretty sure coming from this background is the reason i turned out to be an anarchist 🤣🤣
so confused by the pronunciation of the vice president's last name…
Hitler: "I persecuted and slaughtered those I saw as inferior."
Nguema: "Check."
Stalin: "My paranoia and grip on power resulted in the execution of my compatriots."
Nguema: "Check."
Mao: "I introduced radical policies which caused the misery and deaths of my countrymen."
Nguema: "Check."
Pol Pot: "I destroyed my country and decimated its intellectual base by creating a modern day slave state."
Nguema: "Check."
Idi Amin: "I kept the bodies/skulls of my enemies as trophies."
Nguema: "Check."
Kim Jong Un: "Well, I bet your country was never a despotic dynasty."
Obiang and his son laughing in the background.
Santa clause executioners?! Wtf?!!!
The deep vast recent history of Black sub-Sahara Africa slaughtering each other in genocidally levels ~guess BLM doesn't matter????
The Powers-that-be allowed him to take control because they assumed – quite wrongly – that they could use him.
When it comes to an insane 'loose cannon', the Great Powers really don't understand the concept of 'loose cannon'. It's like a drug addict saying "Yeah, I know it's killing me but I can stop at any time, honest!"
Down the same road as several other African nations after independence.
10:45 "he re-introduced slavery". There's one for the militant activists of today, but somehow I don't think they'll take objection to one of their own for doing this.
>estimate 60-90% of the population either killed or left the country
Even when someone new got into that president seat he won't be able to change anything, they simply have no people.
It really says something when your country is demographically screwed more than that of Paraguay.
The bitter sarcasm at the end of this video. 😂
Seriously gonna cut somebody with it, dude.
Africa is so entertaining. I love a story with a happy ending.
Another great video Raven, really enjoying this longer format too- it didn’t feel like 20 mins at all thanks to your excellent pacing. Thanks for bringing such a terrible topic to light- disgusting how that man is still in power
They just released the 2026 election results he won by 105%