Too Good. Colonials against Equatorial Guinea Autonomy

Abstract

This article tries to analyse how the colonial society of Guinea perceived the decolonization policies promoted by the Franco regime. Through the consultation of primary bibliographic sources, press and archives, the aim is to verify the credibility of Franco's colonial discourse among the colonists between 1963 and 1968, as well as their objections to autonomy. In the colonialist circles of Spanish Guinea there never was full confidence in the supposed Spanish-Guinean brotherhood proclaimed by the institutions. On the contrary: there was severe criticism of the supposed haste of independence, but also of what was considered «excessive» goodness of colonial policies.