SAO TOME PRINCIPE
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PARTNERED NGOBIMILocated on the equator 120 miles off the western coast of Africa, São Tomé & Príncipe is a tropical island country that has, for the most part, remained unknown to the world. Gaining its independence in 1975, and today having a population of less then 180,000, it is a rather young and unique country as African standards go. Strongly influenced by its history as a Portuguese colony and formed around the cultural groups of the slaves that were brought there, São Tomé & Príncipe has developed its own identity revealing both echoes of its past and the presence of its people, who are proudly and properly known as São Tomeians.
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