Africa
Equatorial Guinea is presented here as a historical economic dossier rather than a flat stat sheet: long-run macro cycles, public balance-sheet pressure, market depth, external buffers, and the events that likely bent the curve.
A tighter current-state read before dropping into the long historical charts.
The timeline is where macro numbers meet story: crises, wars, policy shifts, trade deals, and other shocks connected to Equatorial Guinea.
Transition from Spanish colony to independence.
Swaziland (now Eswatini) and Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Britain and Spain respectively, among the last African mainland territories to decolonize. Both nations faced significant governance challenges after independence.