Juan Balboa Boneke

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Juan Balboa Boneke (9 June 1938 – 10 March 2014) was an Equatorial Guinean politician and writer. He was born in Rebola, Spanish Guinea, and studied at the Escuela Superior de Santa Isabel and the La Escuela Social de Granada. His family, the Balboa line, had Cuban roots. He served as a minister under Teodoro Obiang until he disagreed with the regime and fled into exile in Valencia, Spain. Earlier, he lived more than 15 years in Mallorca, where his daughter María Concepción — known as Concha Buika, a flamenco singer — was born. After returning from exile, he settled in Valencia with his second wife. He died in Valencia from kidney problems, after a three-year depression following his wife’s death, at the age of 75.