So living with nature, in nature and from nature is considered poverty? These people have no idea how rich they really are. Dont let them tell you being a subsistence farmer is poverty. I would give up Walmart and publix for this anyday
Only legit guy in the video was the turtle protector. These "investors" have no right to low ball this beautiful place and people, I hope they don't sell out and don't renew the deal and enjoy abundant food and life until our global system can figure itself out and not be so destructive for a lame resort with a lame mowed lawn instead of the awesome jungle.
My impression from visiting Sao Tome half a dozen times since the late 90s is that the people of STP doesn't want to be preserved but wants to develop like everyone else. But I understand what you intend to say (but don't mention "preserve" among academic anthropologist, they'll freak out). While developing, I would like the people of STP to keep the main straits of their lifestyle. Westerners romanticising about poverty in developing countries is awful, having said that, my impression is that their is a lot of happiness in STP. Leve leve!
The government should force all of the foreigners who are fishing to hire the locals and pay them a decent wage that’s the only way to balance everything
What São Tomé needs is less corruption and more development, you can get that by increasing tourism and services quality (with the tourism money). São Tomé has alot of potential, but the main problem is that the people don't care about their own country, so they move to live and work in the west. I live here.
Alexproo00 it's true S.tome and Principe need urgently less corruption,transparency in all aspects. It's easy to talk about the beauty of the wonderful twins islands and there's nothing wrong with that. However this is good to attract good faith investors to develop Chronic social-eco nomic problem of the green marvellous islands of happy friendly,suffered people. 😊🤗
Orgulho enorme ter nascido no centro do mundo, São Tomé & Príncipe! Levamos a vida leve-leve, na paz. A maior riqueza de STP é a diversidade étnica e cultural expressa na música, danças e culinária. Nós somos um povo alegre, acolhedor e sem mágoas. No passado foi um entreposto de escravos lavados à força da costa africana de Angola, Moçambique, Cabo-Verde, Guiné, Gabão, Congo... para o trabalho escravo nas ilhas e outros levados para o trafico de escravos nas Américas, sobretudo para o Brasil e os EUA. Mesmo com um passado colonial das atrocidades de todo tipo e humilhação, o povo manteve-se unido e resistiu por uma questão de sobrevivência. A transição para a independência foi mal feita pelos portugueses por falta de vontade politica e também por má fé dos colonos que governaram as ilhas. Deixaram o povo abandonado a sua própria sorte, isolado, sem escolaridade nem formação básica para gerir todos os seus recursos e riquezas. E não foi por falta de tempo, a descolonização dos países africanos começou nos anos 60 e Portugal só saiu da África após 1975, mais de 500 anos depois. Deus é maravilhoso e generoso conosco, deu-nos solo fértil, flora, fauna e o mar por todos os lados. Com trabalho, temos confiança e muita fé que aos poucos tudo voltará a normalidade em STP!
STP Needs Responsible investors who care about the Country to Grow. And yes there is hunger and most people are locked in on the Island with no way of getting out or creating a better Future for there Children. And yes it is still under control by other Countries as they own all the Business in and Access to the Country and the colonizers Charge 3 times more money for Services and Goods then in the developed World!!! to people that dont have anything. exempels: All Trade and Shipping is run by Portuguese, Also the import of Food and Bigger food stores are own by others foreigners. 90 % of the Turism is also own by there former colonizers. So there is not much opportunities for the SaoTomenses. I have lived on this Beautiful Island so i know.
Great video. Such a fascinating place with so much potential. Would love to visit. Checked the flights and it’s 1,200€ to get there! Should be way cheaper. It’s half the price to go to South Africa which is a far greater distance. It would be great to see the local people setting up the businesses to attract tourists rather than overseas investors. It seems that there are positive developments on the two islands.
Exactly, he actually says: "I'm not happy because some are preserving and others are destroying and things don't work that way. It's like "putting water in your own basket" (to sabotage yourself)".
@@anomalousviewer3164 São Tomé is the capital and largest city of the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its name is Portuguese for "Saint Thomas". Founded in the 15th century, is one of Africa's oldest colonial cities. Wikipedia
@@sonofra889 I'm aware of the history of the island and to whom that island actually belongs to, regardless that traitors in Portugal gave away (what was discovered by their brave ancestors, in the first place) the island in the 90's. As for one of the oldest colonial terrorities that you will have to go back to the Arab invasions for the oldest.
The narrator often said words like poor,poverty,but not one national,black descendent of slaves,mentioned being poor or in poverty.they did express a desire to gain income and that is all probably due to the white investors making all the income from resources and hospitality.it appears to me an intentional neglect was left behind by the portuguese slave owners and im happy the black people did not perish beyond slavery.might i add,the indigenous peoples,blacks,are not so.they were placed there in the late 14 and early1500s by the portuguese onset of christianity with expolsion edicts and papal bulls to seperate their,blacks,families while they were yet in portugal as THE BLACK JEWS.these are descendents from children left there to populate at ages as young as age three at that time.this is called chattel and many were sold around the world,including the americas,a could very well be my relatives.
I am from Sao Tome and Principe, and honestly, this video showed mainly the bad part of our country. The country is way better than this stupid video. Obviously, we still have a long way to go, but not as bad as advertising here. I am tired of our government with no self-confidence who sign deals that beneficiary more these investors. They do not recognise how powerful our country is. Same way, I am sick of those foreigners that portray us as stupid that are dying of hunger. Anyway, our generation will change this.
3 year old Dnt breed. It's a shame the original inhabitants (Portuguese) of the island brought slaves to the island. They should have settled the island like Madeira and become self sufficient. However greed is greed and what had happened, happened.
19:52 Claudio Corallo - Chocolate Producer. He is an foreigner, but onwd a big cacao production. The workers are black only - the population. Thats exploitation
"The workers are black". Yes almost everyone in STP are black. What do you expect and what would be better if this guy didn't own a cacao plantation? More poor people. Some people are so naive.
As a lot of 'African' countries, the people of STP needs to find a culture of its own and put to rest this idea of foreign religion, language, history and economics.... Western countries are way poorer than STP but they can print out all the money they want and manipulate their value as China also is doing but 'African' countries including STP can't do the same because their so called leaders are top westerns employees... This slave machinery called Democracy only came to further explore the already exploited population to the bone leaving them with a false sense of liberty. Mental development is what differ an adult from an infant, therefore it's important to target the mind. Democracy is a tool that helped westerners to Rob the world easier than to take a candy away from a child....
Queiram por favor para um esclarecimento adicional ler a autobiografia percursos da luta de libertação nacional uma viagem no interior do MPLA memórias pessoais de Hugo José Azancot de Menezes. .
The first guy in the video is speaking French; however, we speak Portuguese, which is our first language. Also, we have a few local languages that are mainly spoken by the elderly. Regarding foreign language, French is the most spoken language among older people, then English is spoken by young ones. Besides these languages, there are considerable numbers of people that speak Spanish and Chinese, which are the language that we learn while studying abroad.
whoever translated the portuguese needs to be fired
So living with nature, in nature and from nature is considered poverty? These people have no idea how rich they really are. Dont let them tell you being a subsistence farmer is poverty. I would give up Walmart and publix for this anyday
Only legit guy in the video was the turtle protector. These "investors" have no right to low ball this beautiful place and people, I hope they don't sell out and don't renew the deal and enjoy abundant food and life until our global system can figure itself out and not be so destructive for a lame resort with a lame mowed lawn instead of the awesome jungle.
How dare this german guy can say Sao Tomé is not " really " Africa ! He is the prime minister... Damn ! Nothing change ! Africa for Africans !
This is why I want to study Anthropology there’s so much culture that must be preserved.
Checked out ur channel. Nice selection of vids. Stay woke, Love it.
My impression from visiting Sao Tome half a dozen times since the late 90s is that the people of STP doesn't want to be preserved but wants to develop like everyone else. But I understand what you intend to say (but don't mention "preserve" among academic anthropologist, they'll freak out). While developing, I would like the people of STP to keep the main straits of their lifestyle. Westerners romanticising about poverty in developing countries is awful, having said that, my impression is that their is a lot of happiness in STP. Leve leve!
So beautiful place people and music where this beats place? Wow I’m African too
The government should force all of the foreigners who are fishing to hire the locals and pay them a decent wage that’s the only way to balance everything
What São Tomé needs is less corruption and more development, you can get that by increasing tourism and services quality (with the tourism money). São Tomé has alot of potential, but the main problem is that the people don't care about their own country, so they move to live and work in the west. I live here.
Alexproo00 it's true S.tome and Principe need urgently less corruption,transparency in all aspects. It's easy to talk about the beauty of the wonderful twins islands and there's nothing wrong with that. However this is good to attract good faith investors to develop Chronic social-eco nomic problem of the green marvellous islands of happy friendly,suffered people. 😊🤗
What Sao Tome needs is white people to fuck off!
Leve leve! One of the most peaceful people in the world
They are wealthier than us.
Orgulho enorme ter nascido no centro do mundo, São Tomé & Príncipe! Levamos a vida leve-leve, na paz. A maior riqueza de STP é a diversidade étnica e cultural expressa na música, danças e culinária. Nós somos um povo alegre, acolhedor e sem mágoas. No passado foi um entreposto de escravos lavados à força da costa africana de Angola, Moçambique, Cabo-Verde, Guiné, Gabão, Congo... para o trabalho escravo nas ilhas e outros levados para o trafico de escravos nas Américas, sobretudo para o Brasil e os EUA. Mesmo com um passado colonial das atrocidades de todo tipo e humilhação, o povo manteve-se unido e resistiu por uma questão de sobrevivência. A transição para a independência foi mal feita pelos portugueses por falta de vontade politica e também por má fé dos colonos que governaram as ilhas. Deixaram o povo abandonado a sua própria sorte, isolado, sem escolaridade nem formação básica para gerir todos os seus recursos e riquezas. E não foi por falta de tempo, a descolonização dos países africanos começou nos anos 60 e Portugal só saiu da África após 1975, mais de 500 anos depois. Deus é maravilhoso e generoso conosco, deu-nos solo fértil, flora, fauna e o mar por todos os lados. Com trabalho, temos confiança e muita fé que aos poucos tudo voltará a normalidade em STP!
STP Needs Responsible investors who care about the Country to Grow. And yes there is hunger and most people are locked in on the Island with no way of getting out or creating a better Future for there Children. And yes it is still under control by other Countries as they own all the Business in and Access to the Country and the colonizers Charge 3 times more money for Services and Goods then in the developed World!!! to people that dont have anything. exempels: All Trade and Shipping is run by Portuguese, Also the import of Food and Bigger food stores are own by others foreigners. 90 % of the Turism is also own by there former colonizers. So there is not much opportunities for the SaoTomenses. I have lived on this Beautiful Island so i know.
Sammie Baldini yeah that crisis is already a thing of the past we now have a worse problem
Great video. Such a fascinating place with so much potential. Would love to visit. Checked the flights and it’s 1,200€ to get there! Should be way cheaper. It’s half the price to go to South Africa which is a far greater distance. It would be great to see the local people setting up the businesses to attract tourists rather than overseas investors. It seems that there are positive developments on the two islands.
the translation from 25:28 to 25:40 is completely WRONG, and it is unfair on the man
Exactly, he actually says: "I'm not happy because some are preserving and others are destroying and things don't work that way. It's like "putting water in your own basket" (to sabotage yourself)".
Investors have never lead to anything good in Africa. Leave it alone.
Sao tome is not Africa
@@anomalousviewer3164 São Tomé is the capital and largest city of the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its name is Portuguese for "Saint Thomas". Founded in the 15th century, is one of Africa's oldest colonial cities. Wikipedia
@@anomalousviewer3164 idiot!
@@sonofra889 I'm aware of the history of the island and to whom that island actually belongs to, regardless that traitors in Portugal gave away (what was discovered by their brave ancestors, in the first place) the island in the 90's.
As for one of the oldest colonial terrorities that you will have to go back to the Arab invasions for the oldest.
@@AT-gu8by its generally the idiot that calls another an idiot.
Investor, exploiter.. same thing
The narrator often said words like poor,poverty,but not one national,black descendent of slaves,mentioned being poor or in poverty.they did express a desire to gain income and that is all probably due to the white investors making all the income from resources and hospitality.it appears to me an intentional neglect was left behind by the portuguese slave owners and im happy the black people did not perish beyond slavery.might i add,the indigenous peoples,blacks,are not so.they were placed there in the late 14 and early1500s by the portuguese onset of christianity with expolsion edicts and papal bulls to seperate their,blacks,families while they were yet in portugal as THE BLACK JEWS.these are descendents from children left there to populate at ages as young as age three at that time.this is called chattel and many were sold around the world,including the americas,a could very well be my relatives.
I am from Sao Tome and Principe, and honestly, this video showed mainly the bad part of our country. The country is way better than this stupid video. Obviously, we still have a long way to go, but not as bad as advertising here.
I am tired of our government with no self-confidence who sign deals that beneficiary more these investors. They do not recognise how powerful our country is. Same way, I am sick of those foreigners that portray us as stupid that are dying of hunger.
Anyway, our generation will change this.
3 year old Dnt breed.
It's a shame the original inhabitants (Portuguese) of the island brought slaves to the island. They should have settled the island like Madeira and become self sufficient. However greed is greed and what had happened, happened.
ahhhh gente lindo este paraíso na face da 🌎 digo mil vezes apaixonante são Tomé princepe. ❤❤❤️❤️❤️❤️ BRASIL. 2023
Great documentary about Sao Tome and Principe and learn more on its fascinating landscape, culture and its people. Thanks for sharing. 🇸🇹
Looking for properties to buy in Saotome- cant find any online
19:52 Claudio Corallo - Chocolate Producer. He is an foreigner, but onwd a big cacao production. The workers are black only - the population. Thats exploitation
"The workers are black". Yes almost everyone in STP are black. What do you expect and what would be better if this guy didn't own a cacao plantation? More poor people. Some people are so naive.
Where are pirates when you need them?
This Nation needs a formidable navy and coast guard. Bantu's there should raise chickens, and turkey for protein as well.
Hope it will be open in December
Sad why do you need an investor when you have land that produces food
As a lot of 'African' countries, the people of STP needs to find a culture of its own and put to rest this idea of foreign religion, language, history and economics....
Western countries are way poorer than STP but they can print out all the money they want and manipulate their value as China also is doing but 'African' countries including STP can't do the same because their so called leaders are top westerns employees...
This slave machinery called Democracy only came to further explore the already exploited population to the bone leaving them with a false sense of liberty.
Mental development is what differ an adult from an infant, therefore it's important to target the mind.
Democracy is a tool that helped westerners to Rob the world easier than to take a candy away from a child....
buen video,. esa gente es vecino de mi tierra natal. Annobón
The Portuguese translation is horrendous. It totally detours the message of the interviewed.
Papa TU es avec Mon grand-parent et Paul Mon COUSIN..thank you for Sao principle { desormais for Severe..name
Really liked the video. 😄
Good question love this place ❤️❤️❤️
Not "Ca-cow", it's pronunced "co-co".
Whatever "Midas" touches turns to shit...beware of him! Don't turn into another Bahamas or Jamaica please!!!
🥰🥰🥰🇸🇹🇸🇹
Just blame it on the West like everyone else.
jakiiz jambo That's right: just because someone has white skin color they are evil.
??? The translator was offfffff..I think he or she uses the internet to translate.
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Queiram por favor para um esclarecimento adicional ler a autobiografia percursos da luta de libertação nacional uma viagem no interior do MPLA memórias pessoais de Hugo José Azancot de Menezes. .
is he speaking french or portuguese the first guy
dxelson sounds French , at least to me
french... but "africanized"
Portuguese
Portuguese
The first guy in the video is speaking French; however, we speak Portuguese, which is our first language. Also, we have a few local languages that are mainly spoken by the elderly.
Regarding foreign language, French is the most spoken language among older people, then English is spoken by young ones. Besides these languages, there are considerable numbers of people that speak Spanish and Chinese, which are the language that we learn while studying abroad.
I deeply deslike this video
Dude @ 10:55 is a South African