ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the forced contact between colonizing powers and colonized individuals and the resulting identity transformation from the end of the nineteenth century through the first three decades of the twentieth. It focuses principally on the natives of the African lands colonized by Spain between 1778 and 1968 (parts of what is today Equatorial Guinea), and on the Spaniards themselves. It will also touch on the participation of other foreign peoples, such as the Portuguese, the British, and the Anglicized Krio Fernandinos. The sources consulted for this study demonstrate that the influence between the colonizers (acculturators) and the colonized (acculturated) was vertical and unidirectional, favoring the former group. They used religion and violence as instruments whose object was to embed the foreign element into the identity construction of the colonized groups. In this chapter, I will analyze and interpret the reasons and consequences of this culture clash in the creation of this space that today can be called Hispano-African.
