Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (Niefang, 1950), whom many consider to be the greatest African intellectual in Spanish, are faced with eviction, which threatens to leave him on the street with his wife and children. This will be July 7 in the next July 7 in Espinardo (Mursia), where he has been living since the beginning of 2000. The default of his mortgage, the product of the suffocating economic situation, aggravated by its forced exile and decades of institutional exception, led to an order to evict, which no longer has the opposite. “I am not depressed, and I did not oblige to commit.
Nador currently lives with his family in the house, which he bought in 2002, when he settled in the Mursia region after his expulsion from the equatorial Guinea, where he was persecuted by the dictatorial regime of Offoda. “They told me that they were full of throat and that I had to go,” he said in an interview with this environment. He was the minister of the government in exile, an EFE correspondent in Central Africa and the director of the Latin American cultural center Malabo until 1994, when he had to leave his country at the end of the weapon.
Since then, his career has been a Veto sequence. He stopped his position in the EFE agency after he is directly associated with the then General Director of Foreign Policy for Africa Miguel Angel Moratinos. Later, in 2000, he won the public tender for the foundations and head of the African Center for Educational Institutions at the University of Murcia, but his contract was terminated in 2004 without explanation.
“If I could not pay my mortgage, this is because the Spanish state owes me a pension for all the years that I worked for EFE. Everything that is accredited is documented and demonstrated, ”he says. Despite his international prestige as an author of such works as “Darkness of your black memory” or “Dream”, Nador survives with a minimum pension. As he says, all his income is intended for his children.
Right now he is faced with the performance of a mortgage in Solo: “My children are in Madrid, and my wife, who recently worked on the knee, is restored in France with her mother. I am here alone, receiving a phone number half of the world, because no one can believe what is happening to me. At the end of July, I have a newspaper on the Cancer Islands, and I don’t know how I will cook it without home. ”
For decades, Donato Naddo condemned African dictatorships, European neocolonialism and instrumentalization of black identity in official performances. He was the last journalist who reported from the equatorial Guinea outside before being forced to escape.
Without an alternative, without institutional support and is unlikely to resist any means to resist, Nado is faced with eviction with the dignity of those who have planted all their lives. He assures that he is not going to leave his own leg. “If they want me to leave, they will have to receive handcuffs or dead. If we do not resist, they crush us. ” The date has already been marked: July 7. On that day, the authorities will go to the Espinardo’s house to implement the court order.
Resistance box
The news of eviction caused a wave of indignation in the African and Afro -worship community in Spain, which made an urgent statement on the exclusion of institutional refusal, which Nango suffered for decades. “When the system leaves, the community becomes connected,” they say in the text in which they accuse the Spanish state of the invisible and poor circulation, which they consider to be “our most universal writer.” So that the family does not stop on the street, they launched a resistance box with which they hope to raise funds that allow at least cover the rental house: ING – ES61 1465 0320 0617 4412 9794.
In their statement, the signers warn that what is happening with Nado is not an isolated case, but “another sample of system racism, which often prevents our progress in countries such as Spain.” Despite the fact that he devoted his life to the restoration of invisible historical memories and the spread of Latin American culture on three continents, they condemn that their contribution was systematically ignored by institutions. “Or maybe just for this,” they line up. They claim not only the immediate decision of their housing situation, but also the public recognition of their trajectory and the possibility that “it can be hired somewhere, where they value it, as it deserves.”
