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Equatorial Guinea
Maximiliano Nkogo Esono AdjA-Adji y otros relatos Avila (Madrid), Spain. Malamba. 2000 95 pages. ISBN 84-931670-1-0
THE PROLOGUIST OF this collection, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, is well known in Spain as a sort of de facto cultural ambassador of Equatorial Guinean dissidents, and as a persona non grata within his native country, the only African region in which Spanish is an official language. The young Maximiliano Nkogo, who now lives in Madrid, presents the reader with three engaging tales in which Guinean society is presented in the midst of its stark poverty and omnipotent regime. The first two stories are related and have the same protagonists, Adja-Adja y Companero, rather small-time police officials...