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Publicación Equatorial Guinea(Brill, 2024-10-04) Martino Martin, EnriqueInstead of the familiar mix of oil and corruption, the year’s main stories were propelled by a new combination of gas and anti-corruption campaigns. After the cabinet reshuffle following the elections held late in 2022, the vice-president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, widely known as Teodorín and for being found guilty of embezzlement in various courts abroad in the past, led the charge against the ‘corrupt’ local elites. In Malabo, Moscow, and Minsk in the second half of the year, five meetings took place between the country’s leadership – either President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo or Teodorín – and Russia’s President Putin or Belarussia’s President Lukashenko. This helped to drown out the attention being given (by the European Parliament and UN bodies) to the persecution and kidnapping of prominent political exiles, including those with Spanish citizenship. In major oil news, ExxonMobil finally revealed its exit plans in October and began to transfer its full stake and assets in the famed Zafiro site to state-owned GEPetrol. The scrapping of the Zafiro floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit after an explosion on the offloading vessel late last year had disconnected dozens of wells for months and directly resulted in the second-worst plunge of GDP in decades. Teodorín’s firm grip on power bolstered expectations of authoritarian stability and apparently convinced Marathon Oil and Chevron to expand investment in and production of LNG, the new hydrocarbon backbone of the country.Publicación Proto-petroestado: especulación y conflictos petroleros en el nacimiento de la geopolítica en la Guinea Ecuatorial independiente, 1969-1977(Bellaterra, 2025-05-01) Martino Martin, Enrique; Agencia Estatal de Investigación. EspañaPublicación Equatorial Guinea(Brill, 2025-10-16) Martino Martin, EnriquePresident Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo’s 45-year rule as ‘president for life’ creaked on. The shift towards a gas-driven economy continued, coupled with aggressive anti-corruption purges. Attention remained focused on how the notorious scion and bon-vivant, Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue – widely known as Teodorín – attempted to distance himself from a legacy of oil and kleptocratic plunder amid a protracted transfer and inheritance of power. Meanwhile, ExxonMobil finalised its withdrawal from the flagship Zafiro oilfield and the country, transferring assets to the state-owned oil company GEPetrol. Commodity traders and corporate backers such as Glencore, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips provided new lifelines, seeking to maximise undersea gas piped to Bioko’s unique industrial facilities, liquefied, and shipped out from what is now Africa’s second-largest LNG exporter. Amid a deep ebb of US influence, Malabo definitively reoriented towards Russia and China. Obiang met twice with Xi Jinping, and around 200 Russian mercenaries arrived to reinforce the regime in transition. Despite domestic splits and global realignments, the ruling family’s entrenched authoritarian saga, as old as the country’s independence, continued.Publicación Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea(De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022) Martino Martin, EnriqueTouts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa’s largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today’s Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters’ own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history.Publicación Equatorial Guinea(Brill, 2023-09-28) Martino Martin, EnriqueQuite famous for still being the world’s longest-serving president and despite another unsurprising electoral victory in November, with 94.9% of the votes, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has unofficially but firmly been handing over the reins to his successor and son, the vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, popularly known as Teodorín. Rumours about the president’s ill health were unfounded, but nevertheless, Teodorín’s energetic Twitter and Instagram accounts showed who was acting as the current centre of state affairs, with constant interventions directing domestic and partly also foreign policy. A stream of high-profile US officials visiting the country was related to the apparent Chinese scheme to construct its first Atlantic naval base in the port of Bata. Buoyed by rising LNG production and its international price, the economy, entirely dependent on the offshore export of oil and gas, was projected to exit a seven-year-long recession, but a large incident at ExxonMobil’s famed Zafiro oilfield led to a continuation of the contraction.