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Ten Reasons Why UNESCO Should Cancel the UNESCO-Obiang Prize, September 2011
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Photo 1 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseAngela Stuesse, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, is campaigning against the reinstatement of the proposed UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences. Stuesse believes that the highly controversial $3-milllion international prize would lend credibility to "one of the worlds most ruthless leaders", Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Despite its oil wealth, Equatorial Guinea spends less on education and Health as a percentage of GDP than its neighbours. This is one of its school buildings. -
Photo 2 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseSome of the lowest health and education levels in the world are found in Equatorial Guinea. -
Photo 3 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseNone of the schools in Equatorial Guinea had electricity, running water, or working toilets. This one, in Cupapa, is well lit by sunlight, but others that keep their wooden shutters closed to keep out heat, rain, and disease-carrying mosquitoes are too dimly lit to read. -
Photo 4 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseThis photo shows the interior of the Basuala Mision schoolhouse. -
Photo 5 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseOne of hospital in Basakato, just 26 kilometres from the capital city of Malabo, where babies take their first breaths of life on an unsanitary bed frame with no mattress. -
Photo 6 of 10Credit: Angela StuessePublic school teachers in Equatorial Guinea are employees of the federal government and earn approximately CFA90,000 (US$150) per month. -
Photo 7 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseIn Cupapa, 23 km from the capital, children receiving early primary education crowded around a desk to share materials. -
Photo 8 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseWhen I visited the primary school in Bariobe, approximately 35 km (22 miles) from Malabo, the children gave a stirring performance, which included singing and clapping for their guests. -
Photo 9 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseIf rural families want their children to be educated beyond primary school, they typically have to send them to Malabo. Children end up doing odd jobs in the cities. -
Photo 10 of 10Credit: Angela StuesseChildren are lined up at a well in the capital city of Malabo to fetch water to take home to their families.
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