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Literature of São Tomé and Príncipe. The Literature of São Tomé and Príncipe is one of the richest in Lusophone Africa. Most works are written in Portuguese, but there are also works in Forro Creole, and notably English as well as Caué Creole. Recently there are very few works written in Príncipense Creole (Lunguye).
Francisco José Tenreiro (20 January 1921 – 1963) was a São Toméan geographer and poet who lived during the colonial era. He was taught at the Overseas Political and Social Sciences Institute, now known as the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP, High Science and Politics Institute) of the University of Lisbon.
São Tomé and Príncipe, [ a ] officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, [ b ] is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, about 150 km (93.21 mi) apart and about 250 and 225 km (155 ...
The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were uninhabited at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese sometime between 1469 and 1471. After the islands were discovered by the explorers João de Santarém and Pêro Escobar, [ 1] Portuguese navigators explored the islands and decided they would be a good location for bases to trade with the mainland.
Died. 18 April 1890. (1890-04-18) (aged 25) Alcobaça, Portugal. Occupation. poet. Caetano da Costa Alegre (26 April 1864 – 18 April 1890) was a Portuguese poet .
The Portuguese explorers João de Santarém and Pêro Escobar discovered the islands around 1470, [ 1] which they found uninhabited. [ 2] The São Tomé island was named by the Portuguese in honor of Saint Thomas, as they discovered the island on his feast day, while the Príncipe island (Prince's island) was named in honor of Afonso, Prince of ...
Population. São Tomé and Príncipe's population between 1960 and 2017. According to the 2022 revision of the world factbook the total population was 217,164 in 2022, compared to only 60,000 in 1950. [ 3] The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2020 was 39.8%, 57.4% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.9% was 65 years or older.
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