Manuel Pinto da Costa

São Tomé and Príncipe becomes independent

📅 12 July 1975

São Tomé and Príncipe became independent from Portugal after the collapse of Portuguese dictatorship and negotiations with the liberation movement. The date marked sovereignty, while the plantation...

São Tomé and Príncipe becomes independent from Portugal

📅 12 July 1975

São Tomé and Príncipe became independent after Portugal’s Carnation Revolution opened negotiations with African liberation movements. The islands’ colonial economy had relied on plantation labor under...