Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama

This name uses Fang people from Equatorial Guinea naming customs: his surname is Nguema, his father's surname is Esono and his mother's surname is Nchama. The surnames are chosen by their respective parents.

Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama
Vice President of Equatorial Guinea
In office May 1978 – 3 August 1979
President	Francisco Macías Nguema
Preceded by	Miguel Eyegue
Succeeded by	Florencio Mayé Elá
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Equatorial Guinea)
In office 1971–1979
President	Francisco Macías Nguema
Preceded by	Francisco Macías Nguema
Succeeded by	Florencio Mayé Elá
Personal details
Born	(1936-04-24)24 April 1936 Mongomo, Spanish Guinea
Died	28 April 2015(2015-04-28) (aged 79) Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
Political party	Fuerza Demócrata Republicana

Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama (24 April 1936 – 28 April 2015) was an Equatorial Guinean politician, known for having been Vice President of Francisco Macías Nguema and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.[1][2][3]

Biography

Nguema was born on 24 April 1936 in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea. He was Catholic and was once mayor of Mongomo for a short time in 1982.[4][5]

Career

Before he was vice-president, he had been Government Delegate, Secretary General for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Equatorial Guinea (acting in effect in 1976).[2][6]

Vice president

In 1978, Nguema became vice-president, by Francisco Macías Nguema, his cousin.[7] It took more than a year before he left and calmed the rebels against the Macías' regime.[6][8]

Later career

After the Obiang coup in 1979, Nguema participated in the Supreme Military Council.[9] In October 1979, he was decorated by Obiang and soon after became ambassador to Ethiopia.[4]

After his career, Nguema went into exile in Spain in 1990 and co-founded the opposition party Fuerza Demócrata Republicana in 1995. He returned to Equatorial Guinea in 2015, where he was murdered in a hospital at 5 am. according to the family.[10]

References

1. "www.guineequatoriale-info.net. El portal de Noticias de Guinea Ecuatorial". 4 January 2011. Archived from the original on 4 January 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
2. "Foreign ministers E-K". rulers.org. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
3. Lados, La Tragedia De Un Dictador Azotado Por Todos Los (9 February 2012). "Con un mediocre expediente militar, la trayectoria de Obiang Nguema le lleva al poder absoluto por un sistema de golpe de Estado permanente". la tragedia de un DICTADOR azotado por todos los lados. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
4. "Nguema Esono "se puede adoptar una estrategia para trabajar al lado de un dictador "". Diario Rombe - Información de calidad sobre Guinea Ecuatorial (in Spanish). 12 October 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
5. "Comunicado de FDR sobre el retorno y muerte de Bonifacio – Radio Macuto". 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
6. "NOTICIAS ASODEGUE". www.asodegue.org. Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
7. Essissima, Michel-Yves (25 November 2015). Recorrido morfogenético de la obra novelística de José Fernando Siale Djangany (in Spanish). Verbum.
8. Lados, La Tragedia De Un Dictador Azotado Por Todos Los (9 February 2012). "Con un mediocre expediente militar, la trayectoria de Obiang Nguema le lleva al poder absoluto por un sistema de golpe de Estado permanente". la tragedia de un DICTADOR azotado por todos los lados. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
9. "SOBRE UN GOLPE DE ESTADO EN GUINEA ECUATORIAL". 4 March 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
10. "En la muerte de Bonifacio Nguema Esono . Obiang ni perdona ni olvida". CIDAF - UCM. Retrieved 26 January 2022.