Equatorial Guinea

Malabo (formerly Santa Isabel), the capital of Equatorial Guinea. *Photo from Wikipedia October 12 is Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Spain in 1968. The Portuguese explorer Fernando Pó, seeking a path to India, is credited as being the first European to discover the island of Bioko in 1472. In 1778, Queen Maria I of Portugal and King Charles III of Spain signed the Treaty of El Pardo which ceded Bioko, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the Bight of Biafra between the Niger and Ogoue rivers to Spain. From 1827 to 1843, the United Kingdom had