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Paper short abstract:

Spanish Guinea was located in Central Africa. What were the foundations of the colonial linguistic ideology? What were the phases of evolution and the local impact of colonial educational policy? How did the educational policy of the Second Republic differ from that of Franco’s Government?

Paper long abstract:

Spanish Guinea was located in Central Africa. After a century of Spanish colonisation, it gained independence in 1968 under the name of Equatorial Guinea. Spanish Guinea had Bantu languages and two Creole languages, one with a Portuguese lexical base (the fá d'ambô) and the other with an English lexical base (krio). However, Spanish was the official language of the colony.

What were the foundations of the colonial linguistic ideology? What were the phases of evolution and the local impact of colonial educational policy? How did the educational policy of the Second Republic differ from that of Franco’s Government?

After examining the colonial linguistic ideology in Spanish Guinea, we analyse the evolution of the educational policy in the colony. Thus, we shall study those that were applied from 1858 to 1931. Then we shall examine the reform carried out by the Republican government from 1931 to 1936. Finally, we shall discuss Franco's educational policy in the colony.

To do so, we shall rely on Spanish colonial legislation and archives, the memoirs of Spanish colonial administrators and Spanish missionaries. Our study is also based on two autobiographical novels: “Historia de una maestra” by Josefina Aldecoa and “Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra” by Donato Ndongo Bidyogo.