“Ships are sent out at the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free licence given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilise an idolatrous and barbarous people.”
Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift
As in Sierra Leone, shades of 18th century imperialism.
Rodrigo Angue Nguema(YAHOO)
Wed Jun 18
South Africa, Spain and the United States each approved a plot to topple Equatorial Guinea’s president, British mercenary Simon Mann told a Malabo court Wednesday.
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