1885-1918 History of Central Africa 1939-1968





Spanish Guinea, 1918-1939



European settlement concentrated on Fernando Poo, where cocoa was grown on plantations. Another export product was timber. In 1924 and 1925, Liberians were forced to board ships for Spanish Guinea, where they were to work on plantations (cocoa). In 1930 the League of Nations investigated the Liberian-Fernando Pooan 'slave-trading'.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Equatorial Guinea, History of, from Infoplease
DOCUMENTS
REFERENCE Max Liniger-Goumaz, Historical Dictionary of Equatorial Guinea, Metuchen : Scarecrow 1988, 238 pp. [G]
Article : Spain : Colonies, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1924 p.1302-1303, 1925 pp.1310-1311, 1926 pp.1273-1274, 1928 pp.1313-1314, 1929 pp.1288-1289, 1932 pp.1303-1304, 1937 pp.1334-1335 [G]
Article : Spanish West Africa, in : New International Year Book 1939 p.726 [G]



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