Located in the Gulf of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea is the fourth biggest oil producer south of the Sahara. It has succeeded in developing its economic and social infrastructures, setting off its heritage to its best advantage, preserving its environmental assets, and raising its population's standard of living, and is on course to become an emerging nation by 2020.

Abundantly illustrated with recent photographs, this handsome volume offers a cultural, economic and geographical overview of the country and is currently the only book of its kind about Equatorial Guinea.