Orphaned and not good in civil service exams, Francisco Nguema became Equatorial Guinea's first President following the newly independent country's first and ONLY free election. Life for an Equatoguinean was a hard knock life (considering that their previous head of state was Spanish dictator Francisco Franco) as the nation was known as the Dachau of Africa. The only road out of the country was mined, all boats were blown up and many things like Christian names (what a hypocrite since his name Francisco is a Christian name), fishing, and private education, churches, wearing glasses, libraries and wearing shoes. He only had electricity on in the capital when he was there because he was terrified of assassinations and had the national treasury hidden under his bed in a tiny hut. Seriously, this guy was like a child's take of a Bond villain for a sitcom.
Nguema gave himself direct power in being a lawmaker and a judge for those in the administration wouldn't need to work overtime. He had the country's official motto changed to "There's no other God than Nguema" and morphed all political parties into one so that he could give himself absolute power and remain president for life. A referendum the country had saw just about all the votes in Nguema's favour. As with any other dictatorship, insulting him would result in a prison sentence of 30 years and those who threatened him or the government were given the death penalty.
Around 100,000 people fled the country while up to 80,000 deaths caused by Nguema which meant for a population of 215,000 people at the time, Nguema caused more trauma to Equatorial Guinea than what the Nazis did to Europe.
On one occasion, he invited 150 political opponents of Nguema to a football stadium where Santa Claus clad soldiers shot them. After 101 sentencings to death of hanging, Moroccan soldiers shot Nguema and to this day, his nephew Teodoro Nguema who led the coup is still leader of the country to this very day as of 31 October 2021.