Wilwardo Jones Níger

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Wilwardo Jones Níger was an Equatorial Guinean politician of the early independence period.

Níger belonged to the Fernandinos , a group of Creoles . He was the son of the island's only native large plantation owner, Fernando Poo , Maximiliano Jones , and had six brothers. Níger studied in Spain.

During his father's lifetime he built his own plantation, which in the 1920s covered around 152 hectares, which made him a smaller planter by island standards. After the death of his father in 1944, he took over his business and since 1945 has also managed his plantation. Already an alderman, he was elected the first African-born mayor of the capital Santa Isabel , later Malabo, on June 21, 1960 . Abilio Balboa Arking took over this position in June 1961 , but Níger remained politically active. From 1960 to 1964 he was the provincial representative in the Spanish Cortes . He was also part of the special commission that drafted the law for internal autonomy from 1963. For independence in 1968, Níger founded the Unión Demócrata Fernandina party in 1967 , which was particularly committed to the interests of the island's Fernandino minority.

In the 1968 elections, however, the UDF did not run. Here he ran for the Movimento Nacional de Unidas de Guinea Ecuatorial (MUNGE) together with Bonifacio Ondó Edu , but remained unsuccessful. In 1969 he became Equatorial Guinea's first ambassador to Cameroon. Around 1970 there were Spanish plans for a coup d'état that envisaged him as president. But they were never put into practice.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b france-guineeequatoriale.org: Who's who historique | ASSOCIATION FRANCE-GUINEE EQUATORIALE - Biography Wilwardo Jones Níger , accessed on January 3, 2014
  2. ↑ Ibrahim Sundiata: From slaving to neoslavery: the bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the era of abolition, 1827-1930 , 1996, ISBN 0299145107 , p. 114
  3. ↑ france-guineeequatoriale.org: Who's who historique | ASSOCIATION FRANCE-GUINEE EQUATORIALE - biography of Abilio Balboa Arking , accessed January 3, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Adam Lifshey: The Magellan Fallacy - Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish , 2012, ISBN 0472118471 , page 174
  5. ↑ africanelections.tripod.com: Elections in Equatorial Guinea , accessed January 4, 2014
  6. ^ West Africa , West Africa Publishing Company Limited, 1969, p. 1488
personal data
SURNAME Jones Níger, Wilwardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Equatorial Guinean politician, first local mayor of Malabo (1960–1961)
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century