Though it took some digging I was able to find a bit of the Bubi’s pre-colonial history which I will share with you in this four article series. In actuality, the Bubi ethnic group is a subgroup of the Bantu culture group whose history begins more than 3,000 years ago. Not surprisingly, most of the readily accessible history of the Bubi, from European sources, begins when the Portuguese claimed Bioko Island as their own in 1494. This particular group drew my eye because, despite inhabiting a tiny island off the western coast of the continent and in spite of numbering only 100,000 people (64,000 on Bioko Island), a shockingly large number of African Americans have, at least partially, traced their ancestry to the Bubi.
In my continued research of the African continent I came across the Bubi people, native to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.