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99 - Equatorial Guinea: The North Korea of Africa

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Equatorial Guinea's Low Literacy Rate

Western companies extracting the oil offshore tend to claim that they have a level of plausible deniability. Equatorial Guinea boasts an incredibly high literacy rate, in fact second in Africa, only behind the Seychelles. Yet locals we spoke to for this piece said many students often have to sit under the street lights outside and do their homework so they have light.

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