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Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Quotes

born 1942

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (born 5 June 1942), is a politician and also the current president of Equatorial Guinea. As of 2025, he is the longest serving head of state in the world.

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Oil can be linked to honey. Honey attracts many bees but some of those bees are the bad ones.

There is still the ongoing process of political liberation of African countries

I admire leaders who have stood out in the world and who have worked for world development

I think it is careless, a head of state of a powerful country like America cannot talk like that because the world is not for him. He must respect all races of the world

We hope to develop a variety of industries through these resources and we invite investors from across the globe to consider the exciting possibilities with us

I can never present myself as God. I am a human being, a very modest one

I do not have any (inferiority) complex in front of any white man

That’s the truth, just as you have said the truth, it is racist

Africans think all civilisation lies in the Western world

Those who do criticize us are basing their judgment on outdated information

The instability Africa is suffering is due to the egoism of each country

We continue to remain victims of neocolonialism

If extreme poverty still exists on the African continent, it means that imperial neocolonial forces continue exploiting our countries, taking natural resources from us and sucking everything that could invigorate us out of us

First of all, Western democratic nations cannot understand circumstances where someone stays in power for a long time. But in Africa, there exists what we call a person's charisma

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.