01524nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001653001900042653001500061653001200076653001200088653001400100653002200114100001300136245008000149856007200229300001200301490000700313520098400320022001401304       2018                            d10aSpanish Guinea10arepression10aprotest10aleprosy10aFrancoism10aEquatorial Guinea1 aBrydan D00aMikomeseng: Leprosy, Legitimacy and Francoist Repression in Spanish Guinea.  uhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6063272/pdf/hkx094.pdf  a627-6470 v313 a<p>The Mikomeseng leprosy settlement in Spanish Guinea (present-day Equatorial Guinea) was widely promoted during the 1940s and 1950s as the embodiment of the Francoist 'civilizing mission' in Africa. Its prominence reflected the important role which colonial health and social policy played in establishing the legitimacy of the Franco regime, and particularly in helping to overcome its international isolation in the immediate post-war era. But a major protest by leprosy sufferers in 1946 revealed the everyday violence underpinning life in Mikomeseng, showing how the language of welfare and social justice which pervaded Francoist propaganda masked the reality of a coercive colonial system. The image of Mikomeseng as the embodiment of benevolent colonial rule was constructed by Francoist experts and officials around a brutally repressive institution, one which encapsulated the violence of Spanish colonial rule in West Africa and of the Franco regime as a whole.</p>
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