Paper short abstract:

I analyze the language ideologies mise-en-oevre in La Guinea Española, a journal published by the order of Claretians from 1903 to 1968.

Paper long abstract:

On April 1st, 1903 the missionary order of Los Hijos del Inmaculado Corazón de María (known as Claretians) published the first issue of La Guinea Española, a bimonthly journal devoted to promote religious, materials and morals interests of the Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea. The publication lasted until the independence of Equatorial Guinea in 1968 and changed its name to La Guinea Ecuatorial soon after. In this paper I will analyze the ideologies about the colonial language (Spanish) and its complex interplay with the indigenous languages (Bubi, Fang, Endowe, Benga and Fá d'ambó) illustrated in articles published in La Guinea Española. The entangled relationship between the missionaries and the colonial government is crucial to understand the policies regarding not only the linguistic colonization but also the coloniality of the being upon the African territories. In that period, the ideology of Nationalcatholicism during the Francoist's dictatorship served as a bind between Church and State. The comprehension of this mise-en-ouvre will be  the axis to reconstruct, in glottopolitical terms, the agency of the missionaries and to further underpin the legacy of the Spanish colonization in Equatorial Guinea.