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Map of Equatorial Guinea
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Map of Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
One World Media Awards logo
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One World Media Awards logo.
The following are the words of Beaula McCalla, an Afrikan-Caribbean Briton. Beaula was involved in a project tracing her blood relatives. They were found to be the Bubi people, of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Africa. Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
In 2003 the BBC2 television documentary Motherland � A Genetic Journey which was made about the project, won a prestigious award, called the One World Media Award. This award exists to support those who use the media to foster understanding, offer a critical voice and recognise the stories that matter to people everywhere.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright One World Media
Wiping away my tears
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Wiping away my tears.
I was completely overwhelmed at meeting long lost directly blood-related cousins in Moka and Ureka on the island of Bioko. (Words of Beaula McCalla, an Afrikan-Caribbean Briton, who traced her ancestry.)
Beaula McCallas tears being wiped away by her Bubi blood relatives during their emotional reunion in the village of Moka, on the Island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.
Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright Beaula McCalla
Daily life in Moka
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Daily life in Moka. (Words of Beaula McCalla.)
Photograph of a Bubi woman with a basket on her head, part of daily life in the village of Moka, on the Island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea.
Beaula McCalla is an Afrikan-Caribbean Briton, who traced her blood relatives: the Bubi people, of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.
Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright Beaula McCalla
Junior Children (Moka)
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Junior Children (Moka). (Words of Beaula McCalla.)
Photograph of junior school children in their classroom in the village of Moka on the Island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea.
Beaula McCalla is an Afrikan-Caribbean Briton, who traced her blood relatives: the Bubi people, of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.
Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright Beaula McCalla
Outside the caves
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Beaula McCalla outside a cave in Malabo, on the Island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. This is where her ancestors might have been kept before their long journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean plantation where they would have remained as slaves.
I visited the slave caves in the Port of Malabo where there was a very real possibility that my direct ancestor would have had to endure suffering (the caves were used to hold people before they were shipped off into slavery).
I don’t know how long I stayed in the caves, but I was not ready to leave until my bare soles of my feet had been covered with the soil, until my hands had touched the dry walls, until my tears had fallen onto the ground. I said a prayer of thanks to those who had to endure this hell, so that I might survive. ( The words of Beaula McCalla.)
Beaula McCalla is an Afrikan-Caribbean Briton, who traced her blood relatives: the Bubi people, of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.
Malabo is the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Africa.Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright Beaula McCalla
Getting ready for the trip to Ureka
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Getting ready for the trip to Ureka. (Words of Beaula McCalla.)
The television crew who joined Beaula McCalla, an Afrikan-Caribbean Briton, on her long trek to the south of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Africa. Here, she met her blood relatives, the Bubi people.
Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright Beaula McCalla
Map of Equatorial Guineas ethnic groups
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Map of Equatorial Guineas ethnic groups.Equatorial Guinea, Africa, was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2002
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Map showing location of Bioko
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Map of Africa showing location of Bioko Island, which is highlighted in red.
Formerly known as Fernando Po, the Island of Bioko, was settled by the Bubi people in the 13th century. They came from the mainland. In 1472, the Portuguese discovered the island and claimed it for Portugal. Portuguese settlers moved to the island. In 1778, the Portuguese surrendered the island to the Spanish, who ruled the island until Independence in 1968. In the 19th century, Britain used the island as a base for the Navys anti-slavery patrols. Many enslaved Africans rescued from slaving ships were resettled on Bioko. Their descendants are known as Fernandinos.
Beaula McCalla, an Afrikan-Caribbean Briton, traced her blood relatives, the Bubi people, of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.
Date: 2002
Copyright: Copyright BCC Museum
Beaula McCalla
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Photograph of Beaula McCalla, an Afrikan-Caribbean Briton who has traced her blood relatives, the Bubi people, of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Africa.
Equatorial Guinea was a former Spanish colony.
Date: 2003
Copyright: Copyright Beaula McCalla
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