Löpèlo Mëlaka

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King Malabo around 1930

Löpèlo Mëlaka , better known as Malabo , († April 19, 1937 ) was the last king of the Bubi people on the West African island of Bioko .

After the death of his brother Moka , the reigning king, on March 2, 1898, his minister, Sas Eburea, seized power and crowned himself in October 1899. His continued resistance against the Spanish colonizers led to his capture and death in July 1904 .

Then Malabo was crowned King of the Bubi in September 1904. During his tenure, the 1910 uprising against forced labor in the plantations, led by Chief Luba , took place. The suppression of the uprising probably cost 15,000 boys their lives.

Malabo gave himself up to alcohol and died in Riabba, today's Moka , on April 19, 1937. His son, born in 1896 and legitimate heir, Francisco Malabo Beosa, never assumed the office of king and died in Moka on November 15, 2001 in total anonymity .

In 1973 the equatorial Guinean capital was renamed Malabo in honor of Löpèlo Mëlaka as part of a campaign by then President Francisco Macías Nguema to replace colonial place names with African ones .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ france-guineeequatoriale.org: Who's who historique | ASSOCIATION FRANCE-GUINEE EQUATORIALE - Biography Moka (MÖÓKÁTA) , accessed July 18, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c france-guineeequatoriale.org: Who's who historique | ASSOCIATION FRANCE-GUINEE EQUATORIALE - Biography Malabo (Löpèlo Mëlaka) , accessed on July 18, 2015
  3. ↑ Max Liniger-Goumaz: Connaître la Guinee Equatoriale , in: Peuples Noirs Peuples Africains no.46 (1985) 27-92, accessed on July 18, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Löpèlo Mëlaka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malabo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of the Bubi
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1937
Place of death Moka