Born in Niefang (Equatorial Guinea) in 1950. Writer, journalist, and political exile, he was a correspondent and delegate for the Spanish agency EFE in Central Africa (1987-1995). Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Murcia (2000-2004) and visiting professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia (2005-2008), he has been a tenured professor at various American, African, and European universities. He is the author of the essays History and Tragedy of Equatorial Guinea (1977) and Anthology of Guinean Literature (1984), co-author of Spain in Guinea (1998), and author of three novels translated into several languages. He regularly collaborates with media such as El País, ABC, Mundo Negro, The Corner, and the print magazine Consejeros.