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...island unto itself, despite its 1964 incorporation into Tanzania; Karume has instituted "reforms" like forcing 14-and 15-year-old Zanzibar Asian girls to marry black Revolutionary Council members, including himself. In Equatorial (formerly Spanish) Guinea, following a business dispute with a West German pump manufacturer, President Francisco Macias Nguema seized the industrialist's wife last month and released her only two weeks ago for a ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Black Africa a Decade Later | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...ambassador, Saturnine Ibongo lyanga, said his countrymen hoped to be "an Iberian bridge to Africa." All differences seemed ironed out between the 60,000 Fangs of underdeveloped Rio Muni, the mainland wing, and the 8,000 Bubis of the prosperous island of Fernando Poo. Francisco Macias Nguema, 45, was elected President, and his fellow Fang, cosmopolitan Atanasio Ndongo, 41, became Foreign Minister. Then, unhappily, the Fangs fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Equatorial Guinea: Fangs a Lot | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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