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The Great Scramble for Africa - Part 2
Sophie has a case of Dom Perignon champagne in the sawed off shotgun. Fernando Poe was colonized by Spain prior to the Great Scramble for Africa. The colonial power set up an economy based on cocoa plantations and a reasonable school system. By the second half of the 20th century, equatorial guineans were less poor than most Africans thanks to exports of cocoa. But few Spaniards settled and native Africans were denied political rights and economic chances.