| Term Start: | May 1978 |
| Term End: | 3 August 1979 |
| President: | Francisco Macías Nguema |
| Birth Date: | 1936 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Mongomo, Spanish Guinea |
| Death Place: | Malabo, Equatorial Guinea |
| Successor: | Florencio Mayé Elá |
| Office: | Vice President of Equatorial Guinea |
| Successor2: | Florencio Mayé Elá |
| President2: | Francisco Macías Nguema |
| Predecessor2: | Francisco Macías Nguema |
| Term Start2: | 1971 |
| Term End2: | 1979 |
| Office2: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Equatorial Guinea) |
| Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama | |
| Predecessor: | Miguel Eyegue |
| Party: | Fuerza Demócrata Republicana |
Bonifacio Nguema Esono Nchama (24 April 1936 – 28 April 2015) was an Equatorial Guinean politician, known for having been Vice President of Francisco Macías Nguema and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.[1] [2] [3]
Nguema was born on 24 April 1936 in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea. He was Catholic and was once mayor of Mongomo for a short time in 1982.[4] [5]
Before he was vice-president, he had been Government Delegate, Secretary General for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Equatorial Guinea (acting in effect in 1976).[6]
In 1978, Nguema became vice-president, by Francisco Macías Nguema, his cousin.[7] It took more than a year before he left and calmed the rebels against the Macías' regime.[8]
After the Obiang coup in 1979, Nguema participated in the Supreme Military Council.[9] In October 1979, he was decorated by Obiang and soon after became ambassador to Ethiopia.
After his career, Nguema went into exile in Spain in 1990 and co-founded the opposition party Fuerza Demócrata Republicana in 1995. He returned to Equatorial Guinea in 2015, where he was murdered in a hospital at 5 am. according to the family.[10]