Bubi government at the end of the 19th century: resistance to the colonial policy of evangelization on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea

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Title:	Bubi government at the end of the 19th century: resistance to the colonial policy of evangelization on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea
Author:	Fernández Moreno, Nuria
Year:	2013
Periodical:	Nordic Journal of African Studies (ISSN 1459-9465)
Volume:	22
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	23-48
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Bioko
Subjects:	Bubi colonization resistance traditional polities
External link:	https://njas.fi/njas/article/view/165/155
Abstract:	This article examines transformations in Bubi society on the island of Fernando Poo, now Bioko (Equatorial Guinea) as a consequence of two complementary developments, colonization and evangelization. In particular, it deals with the transition that Bioko political structure underwent after entering into contact, first, with different African populations and, later, with the Spanish colonial government, at the end of the 19th century. The article combines the analysis of ethnographic materials obtained from fieldwork in contemporary Bubi society with the analysis of documentary sources. It shows that the transition from a local structure of dispersed chiefdoms to a centralized chiefdom that culminated in the formation of a kingdom slowed down colonial expansion on the Island of Bioko. The article concludes with a theoretical discussion of the historical convergences that favoured this political development of chiefdoms. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]