Francisco Malabo Beosá or King Malabo II (23 June 1896 – November 2001), was an

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n monarch, born on the island of Fernando Po in

Spanish Guinea Spanish Guinea (Spanish: ''Guinea Española'') was a set of insular and continental territories controlled by Spain from 1778 in the Gulf of Guinea and on the Bight of Bonny, in Central Africa. It gained independence in 1968 as Equatorial G ...

(today

Bioko Bioko (; historically Fernando Po; bvb, Ëtulá Ëria) is an island off the west coast of Africa and the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea. Its population was 335,048 at the 2015 census and it covers an area of . The island is located of ...

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), was the son of former

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king

Malabo Lopelo Melaka Malabo Löpèlo Mëlaka or King Malabo I (1837–1937), born on the island of Fernando Po (today Bioko, Equatorial Guinea), was the son of former Bubi king Moka and served as king between 1904 until his death in 1937, during the Bahítáari Dy ...

(Malabo I) and the last legitimate successor of the Bubi Kingdom.

Biography

King Malabo II was considered the

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of the

Bubi people The Bubi people (also known as Bobe, Voove, Ewota and Bantu Bubi) are a Bantu ethnic group of Central Africa who are indigenous to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. Once the majority group in the region, the population experienced a sharp decline ...

, leading circle of elder advisers whose animist rites focused on the cult of Morim - the supreme being and creator of the universe. In 1973,

Francisco Macías Nguema Francisco Macías Nguema ( Africanised to Masie Nguema Biyogo Ñegue Ndong; 1 January 1924 – 29 September 1979), often mononymously referred to as Macías, was an Equatoguinean politician who served as the first President of Equatorial Guinea f ...

in his policy of Africanizing the names of geographic landmarks in Equatorial Guinea, changed the name of Santa Isabel, the capital of Equatorial Guinea to

Malabo Malabo ( , ; formerly Santa Isabel) is the capital of Equatorial Guinea and the province of Bioko Norte. It is located on the north coast of the island of Bioko, ( bvb, Etulá, and as ''Fernando Pó'' by the Europeans). In 2018, the city had a p ...

in honor of his father King Malabo. King Malabo II died at the age of 105 in the village of Moka, his hometown, located in the southern part of

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. He was one of the longest-lived members of any royal family. He left a large family of nine children, 62 grandchildren, 84 great-grandchildren and 17 great-great-grandchildren.

Honours

King Malabo II celebrated his centenary in 1996 and was the oldest world leaders on record. (See

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) He died in 2001 at the age of 105. The government of Equatorial Guinea, represented by the governor of

Bioko Sur Province Bioko (; historically Fernando Po; bvb, Ëtulá Ëria) is an island off the west coast of Africa and the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea. Its population was 335,048 at the 2015 census and it covers an area of . The island is located o ...

, Deogracias Olom Miguel Abia, paid a nationally televised tribute to the late king during his funeral in Moka.The Death of Francisco Malabo Beosa, son of King Malabo (in Spanish)
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References

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