Macías Nguema,the first Equatorial Guinea president once declared private education subversive, and banned it entirely with Decree 6 on 18 March 1975.
The country's instruments of repression (military, presidential bodyguard) were entirely controlled by Macías Nguema's relatives and clan members.
The president's paranoid actions included mandating the death of those who wore spectacles,banning use of the word "intellectual" and destroying boats to stop his people fleeing from his rule,(fishing was banned). The only road out of the country on the mainland was also mined
He Africanised his name to Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong in 1976 and thereafter demanding that the rest of the Equatoguinean population replace their Hispanic names with African names. He also banned Western medicines, stating that they were un-African.
During Macías Nguema's government, the country had neither a development plan nor an accounting system for government funds.
After the killing of the governor of the Central Bank, he carried everything that remained in the national treasury to his house in a rural village.On Christmas Eve of 1969 about 150 of his opponents were killed.
Early 1979,Macías Nguema organised the execution of several members of his own family, leading several members of his inner circle to fear that he was no longer acting rationally.
On 3 August 1979 he was overthrown by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who was Macías Nguema's nephew (and the brother of one of the victims) and who served previously as the military governor of Bioko and Vice-Minister of the Armed Forces
to his overthrow, he sent his three minor children (Monica, Maribel, and Paco) to North Koreafor safety. They lived there for the remainder of their childhood and now live in various other countries
Macías Nguema and the six other defendants sentenced to death were executed by a hired Moroccan Army firing squad at Black Beach Prison at 6 pm on the same day
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