4 . Exhibition ‘ Guinea : el franquisme colonial ’. ( 29 / 05 / 2019 – 21 / 11 / 2019 )
Name of the initiative
Year Participants Status
“ Guinea : el franquisme colonial ”
(“ Guinea : the colonial Francoism ”)
2019
“ Memorial Democràtic ” ( Barcelona )
Description :
Exhibition held at the “ Memorial Democràtic ” explaining how the Franco regime imposed its ideological axis , national Catholicism , in the colony of Equatorial Guinea , a territory that saw how the directives of Franco ’ s dictatorship were even more forceful due to their racist nature .
“ Spanish Guinea was a colony of Spain from 1858 to 1968 . It suffered , therefore , the repression inherent to the Franco dictatorship , like the rest of the territories of the State . The people of Guinea were subjected to an anti-democratic regime : the national-Catholic ideology was imposed on them , they were subjected to military domination , they were not allowed to be represented in institutions ... But the Franco dictatorship , in Guinea , was made much worse by the fact that it was a colony .
The Guineans , like almost all Africans , were subjected to European domination . Even during the Republic , they suffered from a lack of rights . The Franco regime worsened a situation marked by racism , which led to discrimination , mistreatment , economic exploitation and the dispossession of local communities .”
Links and sources :
Autonomous government of Catalonia website – Memorial Democràtic https :// memoria . gencat . cat / ca / actualitat / activitats / detalls / activitatagenda / Guinea-elfranquisme-colonial Article in Vilaweb about the exhibition : “ Guinea Equatorial , el franquisme colonial ”, ( agosto 25 , 2019 ). https :// www . vilaweb . cat / noticies / guinea-equatorial-franquisme-colonial / Goethe Institut , “ Una Memoria en Suspenso ”. https :// www . goethe . de / ins / es / es / kul / sup / lat / 21873884 . html
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