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Summary

This study analyzes the cultural history of Spanish in Equatorial Guinea.

Abstract 

This study reconstructs the glottopolitical and cultural history of Spanish in Equatorial Guinea, allowing us to analyze the actions taken by social groups regarding languages within the context created during colonization and continuing into the present. On one hand, these conditions reveal the power dynamics between European and African languages; on the other hand, they enable us to examine how these relationships were institutionalized in schools, government, religion, and the media. The book concludes with an analysis of institutional discourses surrounding ethnolinguistic identity, which evolves from "Equatorial Guinean Hispanicity" to "Afro-Hispanic and Bantu."

Primary research question

Under what social, historical, political and cultural conditions did the coloniality of Spanish as a language of power in Equatorial Guinea take over?