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- ↑ Index des personnalités historiques de la GUINEE EQUATORIALE
- ↑ El Gobernador Faustino Ruiz González y el nacionalismo en Guinea Ecuatorial, article by Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Seminario Internacional "Actores Coloniales españoles y Espacios Africanos SS. XIX-XX", Universidad de Alcalá, 2–3 December 2010
- ↑ La Guinea Ecuatorial: Reminiscencia histórica, experiencia de las luces y de las sombras de un proyecto político, artículo de Eugenio Nkogo Ondó.
- ↑ Acacio Mañé Elá, una historia por contar, Oyono Ayingono, Carmela. Editorial Trifaldi, Madrid, 2011, ISBN 978-84-938520-0-9
- ↑ "La Gaceta de Guinea Ecuatorial - 42 años de la Independencia, y de Recuerdos". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-12.