Demographics


The majority of the people of Equatorial Guinea are of Bantu origin. The largest tribe, the Fang, is indigenous to the mainland. The Fang constitute 80% of the population and comprise 67 clans.


Equatorial Guinea also allowed many fortune-seeking European settlers of other na- tionalities, including British, French and Germans. There is also a group of Israelis, who are employed at the Centro Médico La. After independence, thousands of Equa- torial Guineans went to Spain, while others went to Cameroon, Gabon, and Nigeria because of the dictatorship of Francisco Macías Nguema. Some Equatorial Guinean communities are also to be found in Latin America, the United States, Portugal, and France.


Languages spoken in the country are Spanish, Equatoguinean Spanish, native lan- guages (including Fang, Bube, Benga, Pichinglis, Ndowe, Balengue, Bujeba, Bissio, Gumu, Annobónese, a nearly extinct Baseke, and Igbo), French, others (mainly Eng- lish, or German, as well as Fernando Poo Creole English).


Climate


Equatorial Guinea can boast of a tropical climate with diverse wet and dry seasons. From June to August, Río Muni experience the dry’s while Bioko goes wet from De- cember to February and the reverse is also true.


In between, there is gradual transition with rain or mist occurs daily on Annobón, where a cloudless day has never been registered. However, the temperature at Malabo, Bioko, ranges from 16 °C (61 °F) to 33 °C (91 °F), though on the southern Moka Plateau normal high temperatures are only 21 °C (70 °F). In Río Muni, the aver-


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