Publisher's Synopsis
After four hundred years of brutal colonization, the first decades as an independent nation of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea saw its popular culture marked by a strong influence of Mexican culture in the audiovisual art of Mexican culture with rancheras but mainly, with the cinema of Don Mario Moreno aka ''Cantinflas''.
For the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa precisely at the end of the seventies, eighties and nineties, Cantinflas' films were like a treasure tailor-made for a people in search of their own socio-cultural and political identity.
With his films suitable for all audiences, Mario Moreno ''Cantinflas'' brought Mexico and Mexicans into every home that could afford a television set at that time, and the public television channel almost systematically broadcasted the films of this great artist.
This is the book about Cantinflas, The man who made Equatorial Guinea laugh in the eighties and nineties.
