Qualla: Annobon https://qualla.com/annobon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/p/s/p/annobon-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Annobon https://qualla.com/annobon Annobon: Introduction https://qualla.com/annobon/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. In May 2025, the self-proclaimed government of the Republic of Annobon -- two exiles living in Spain -- petitioned Argentina to accept their island as an associated state or province. The request was bizarre, earnest, and rooted in a colonial genealogy so tangled it almost made sense: the island once fell under the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, which also governed what became Argentina. It was the latest chapter in a story that has been accumulating improbable turns since the Portuguese first found this uninhabited volcanic speck in the Gulf of Guinea on New Year's Day, 1473. Annobon is only 17 square kilometres. Its history is several sizes too large for it.

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/p/s/p/annobon-wp/kpsp-annobon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Annobon: An Island Between Empires https://qualla.com/annobon/ Photo credit Bioko Islander, CC BY-SA 3.0. Annobon sits 335 kilometres off the Gabonese coast, closer to Sao Tome and Principe than to the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, the nation that claims it. The Portuguese colonized the island first, populating it with enslaved people from Angola and establishing a society that blen...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/p/s/p/annobon-wp/kpsp-annobon-an-island-between-empires.mp3 0:06 2 full Annobon: Seventeen Square Kilometres of Endemics https://qualla.com/annobon/ Photo credit Public domain. For an island so small, Annobon supports remarkable biological diversity. Twenty-nine bird species have been recorded, including three endemic songbirds: the Annobon white-eye, the Annobon paradise flycatcher, and the Sao Tome bronze-naped pigeon. The Annobon scops owl is another...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/p/s/p/annobon-wp/kpsp-annobon-seventeen-square-kilometres-of-endemics.mp3 0:06 3 full Annobon: Toxic Legacy https://qualla.com/annobon/ Photo credit Spanish Post, Public domain. Annobon's strategic importance to Equatorial Guinea has nothing to do with the island itself and everything to do with the ocean around it. Through ownership of Annobon, the government claims maritime territory stretching from 1 degrees North to nearly 5 degrees South and from 2 ...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/p/s/p/annobon-wp/kpsp-annobon-toxic-legacy.mp3 0:06 4 full Annobon: Dissent from a Distance https://qualla.com/annobon/ Photo credit The Ogre at English Wikipedia / Later versions were uploaded by The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick at English Wikipedia., Public domain. In July 2022, two Annobon residents in exile in Spain founded a separatist movement called Ambo Legadu. Both had participated in protests on the island in 1993. One, Orlando Cartagena Lagar, declared himself prime minister. The Equatorial Guinean government responded with a wave ...

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