Caminemos pisando las sendas de nuestra inmensa felicidad (Let Us Tread the Path of our Immense Happiness) is the national anthem of Equatorial Guinea.
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It was written by Atanasio Ndongo Miyone. The music was composed by Ramiro Sanchez Lopes, who was a Spanish Lieutenant and the deputy director of music at the army headquarters located in Madrid. He received a prize of 25,000 pesetas for composing the music. The lyrics of the anthem were influenced by the end of Equatorial Guinea’s colonization, with anti-colonization being a main theme.
The anthem was first used on Equatorial Guinea’s independence day, October 12, 1968, and has been in use ever since.
English Translation
Let us walk the path
Of our immense happiness,
In brotherhood, without separation,
Let us sing Liberty!
After two centuries of being subjected
To colonial domination,
In fraternal union, without discrimination,
Let us sing Liberty!
Let us cry, Long Live Free Guinea,
And let us defend our liberty
Let us cry Long live free Guinea,
And let us always remain united..
Let us cry Long live free Guinea,
And let us defend our liberty.
Let us cry Long live free Guinea,
And let us always conserve national independence
And let us conserve, and let us conserve,
National independence.