I am a Black American (retired USAF and retired federal employee). I lived and worked in São Tomé and Príncipe for three years (2012-2015) as a Foreign Service Officer at the Voice of America (VOA) shortwave station. (At night you might see all of those red lights from the antenna towers). I lived in one of the three houses on the facility. I have many friends there. I was one of two Americans there. Before the years mentioned above, I visited Sao Tome many times on teaching excursions teaching electronics. Before I went in to teach electronics, we (the government) sent in English teachers to teach my students English to an 8th grade level. Then I would come in to teach electronics as the Sao Tomeans would be hired to maintain the transmitters, the power plant, vehicles, and othe functions required to maintain the facility. São Tomé and Príncipe has a complex history that includes colonialism, slavery, and struggle for independence. When I say complex I mean complex. You may have already learned that STP is largely dependent on agriculture and fisheries. The industrial sector in the country is still underdeveloped, with only a few small-scale industries such as food processing and textile manufacturing. The STP government has identified energy, infrastructure and tourism as key areas for development and has initiated several projects in these sectors but it is slow going. The lack of skilled labor, inadequate infrastructure, and the high cost of doing business in the country are major challenges that need to be addressed to stimulate industrial growth. I am retired from the federal government (2017) and would live there if there was a good banking, hospital, and postal infrastructure. Getting access to by cash assets from the United States would be very difficult at present. When I worked there, the Voice of America facility was autonomous and we had our own power plant, cashier (for Americans only), motor pool, supply warehouse, and water treatment (reverse osmosis), and high-speed Internet which I implement (I am an IT Specialist). If Sao Tome had a brown out or a Black out, Voice of America would still be "lit up." We were not connected to the STP power grid. The facility has five powerful generators. Only one or two ran at a time. The others were back ups. I was responsible for the maintenance of the entire facility. It was a sad day when I left. I was making a difference as the first Black American supervisor there in all of the facility's history. Senior management in Washington DC was not sending Black supervisors and managers there. (That in itself is an interesting story I could speak at length on). However, I fell in love with the country and the people. About a year after I retired, I returned for a visit for two weeks. I plan on returning this year. Many of the people there call me "Ronaldo." 🙂 There is a hidden gem in Sao Tomean waters, The Gulf of Guinea. The oil exploration and production near Sao Tome is managed jointly by the government of Sao Tome and Principe and foreign oil companies through a Joint Development Zone (JDZ). The JDZ is a maritime area of approximately 34,000 square kilometers located in the Gulf of Guinea, offshore of Sao Tome and Principe and Nigeria. The JDZ was established in 2001 as a partnership between Sao Tome and Nigeria to share the resources of the region. I hope for Sao Tome is not swindled out of this tremendous wealth potential. Oil revenus could build decent schools, hospitals, roads, power generation, and build up the required infractures to "connect" Sao Tome and Principe with the rest of the world. There are no "colleges or universities" there. Sao Tomeans who are able must travel to Portugal, Russia, Brazil, etc to get a college education. There is something called the Joint Development Zone (JDZ). Oil exploration and production near Sao Tome is managed jointly by the government of Sao Tome and Principe with Nigeria. This partnership was established in 2001 to share this valuable resource. I suspect that China, The United States, and some European countries are working silently in the background to funnel away oil revenue. I would love to see more Black Americans; especially those who are business and technically savvy visit Sao Tome. The Sao Tomean people are a great people and they deserve better. Their children deserve the best. BTW, there is a strong Seventh Day Adventist and Jehovah's Witness presence there. VISITING SAO TOME Sao Tome is very safe. I recommend converting your dollars or Euros into Dobras, if possible. The grocery store - Supermacado - does not accept credit cards, but Dobras only (when I was there). The two best hotels there (when I was there) are the Pestana and The Omali Lodge. They accept credit cards and you can exchange Dollars and Euros for Dobras. I also recommend that you get mosquito medications prior to visiting and start taking them two week prior to arrival so the medication is in your system. I highly recommend Docycycline 100mg. A small antibiotic pill you take once per day and there are no side effects. It is a very effective malaria prevention medication. I took them for the three years I was there and never got sick from malaria. In fact, I never got sick from anything. I appreciate you and your channel.

my first comments happened before watching this video. After watching the video I was shocked! I was raised in Lisbon and I know deeply about the history of Saotome and Príncipe, but after watching this video I came to the conclusion that the people of Saotome and Príncipe, like all African people, do not know the half of the truth about what happened in the past . We have to change that, we all deserve to know the truth! Especially because this island was one of the first places where the Portuguese started sending slaves, before they started taking slaves to the other side of the Atlantic. We're going to have to find a way to bring this whole story to our community as quickly as possible.

I love how you respect everyone you encounter on your journey. Your guide has such humility. Peace and blessings to you and your family.

How much long N’Zambe, we will wait to sing the songs in Zion!!! Guide your seed to your wisdom Father.

Thanks for giving us a brief history of this African county that i didn’t even know about as an African. It’s interesting as to learn that they share the same history as African Americans who don’t know where they hail from in Africa. You could say the same thing for the Creoles in Freetown Sierra Leone. .

ALL WE NEED is the scriptures. They are our brothers & sisters! They are ISRAELITES. Thank you GOBLACK!

Peace & blessings

Im from São Tomé and Principe and i feel sad of the state of our Islands , the country has so much potential to be a top touristic island in Africa, but the Portuguese left the islands in this state and our governors didn’t do nothing to improve the place . This is one of the most peaceful people on the continent, very laid back and chill I hope things change very soon

This has been my best GBTA video esp after having seen the video by Benayah Israel how the ancestors came to be on this island. Everything is tying up and making one huge sense. Thank you GB for all this, truly appreciated. Much love to the Sao Tomes ❤

Thank you for showing the world what is going on in real time.

Their history was erased just like ours. Thank you for sharing this and giving us eyes to see our family.

This was so wrong. It breaks my heart. The Portuguese need to be held accountable just like all the others including g the US, Britain, Germany, Arabia, Spain they were all confederate in doing these heinous acts.

You doing good bro keep up the good work

Brother, appreciate what you are doing by traveling to various countries throughout our ancestral home! So much potential for the diaspora to collaborate with Africans and invest and be a moving force for exponential change! But, I agree with your statement that we first must re-connect to having a relationship to God to understand our purpose, renew the convenant and live a holy, moral and righteous life!

I appreciate this, because I am always looking for more insights into Sao Tome. This is a key place where the Portuguese exiled many of our ancestors as a result of the Inquisition.

Conclusion is that we do not need any religion.

Slavery was practiced in Africa way before the portuguese people arrived. The egypts built their empire with slaves and lots of african tribes had slaves that were captured from other tribes. Yes, the portuguese were involved in slave trade yet most of them were bought from african tribes.

I'm from Guinea Bissau, another of the 5 Portuguese colonies in Africa. I can confirm that the Portuguese, who fled from the Portuguese inquisition, even before Atlantic slavery, hid in Guinea Bissau and later it was them who guided the Portugal in the context of Atlantic slavery.They were the ones who broke with the relationships of the many ethnic groups in Guinea Bissau. When Portugal arrived there, the work was already done! Today we speak kriolo, because we already lived with the fugitive Portuguese, before Atlantic slavery, during Atlantic slavery, during colonization, until they were shot at by the troops of the great Amilcar Cabral. They opened the doors of Atlantic slavery, and they were white and mulattoes from Portugal.

We Israelites exiled in Jamaica are direct kin of São Tomé Israelites & so called Israelites “African” Diaspora scattered & forced to become “New Christians”

This was very eye opening, thank you for sharing. In recent years, I've been learning about how our people got to Sao Tome and Principe through history books and video lessons. Same playbook by WS every time. Anyway, wanted to chime in that if you plan to go to Portugal, I'm sure you know about Naky of African Lisbon Tours. He will help you with discussing the history of the slave trades that took place there.

There is a horrific story of the first 2000 Jewish children, who were sent to the island of Sao Tome and then dumped there, mercilessly in the middle of the jungle. Ask the inhabitants of Santome e Principe about it, it was horrible! Someone must know this story, because it was the beginning of the history of Sao tome and principe.

I'm glad I have subscribed to your channel man.. thank you for doing video about São Tome and Príncipe. Great interview. GOD bless

I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK MY BROTHER, KEEP GOÏNG, SO OUR PEOPLE WILL BE AWAKE🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Reminds me of the Caribbean, i see a breadfruit tree and coconut trees.

Can you imagine the catholic sign right on the shore, that only tells you this people came with the Christian priests. Smh...🙄

I blame the Africans by this point

I had never heard of this island before. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you GB2A for sharing this excellent work.

Thanks for being there my brother

Portugal is the largest investor in São Tomé and Príncipe, investing MILLIONS of euros in the economy of São Tomé and Príncipe. São Tomé and Príncipe maintains an embassy in Lisbon, a consulate in Porto and one in Coimbra. Thousands of tourists from Cape Verde visit São Tomé and Príncipe, helping the local economy, In recent years, Poland and Germany have been increasing commercial ties with São Tomé and Príncipe, buying more and more cocoa and other products from São Tomé and Príncipe. India also has very good relations with São Tomé and Príncipe, investing thousands of euros annually in the agricultural sector. The United States has had relations with São Tomé and Príncipe since 1975, and has offered millions of dollars in financial aid packages to São Tomé and Príncipe. The financial aid packages were designed to develop the country's infrastructure and improve its fiscal, tax and customs administration. In addition, in recent years, some US Coast Guard ships have visited São Tomé and Príncipe, providing medical and military training to soldiers from São Tomé and Príncipe. In 2002, the US had plans to establish a small military base on the island of São Tomé. São Tomé and Príncipe accepted the construction of the base, but the plan was canceled due to US political and financial issues.

I love how you show us the best of Africa! I'm from Cape Verd Island 🏝.❤ when are you going there lol. Love your show ❤️.

Hey we were kind enough to bring Africans to that land because the Portuguese were the first to discover and inhabit the archipelago. We founded literally every town in São Tomé and Cabo Verde

Mr.GoBlack2Africa thank you for your valuable videos, and I want to move to Africa. Peace & Blessings

Yah please in your name Yahsua breath on our dry bones.

Thanks for this video. Did not know about this place. Thank-you so. much!

Awesome, a place our ancestors traveled

Shalum

Religion was used to abuse and take advantage of these humble people. Then killing 2000 for refusing to work for free was heartless. Sao Tome and Principe (Saint Thomas and Prince) seems nice with an island back drop. The exploitation seriously damaged the development of such small country. However, the natives should come together and encourage their government to develop the roads, and build better structures without using outsiders...

You might as well have been walking around GRENADA in the CARIBBEAN, it looks exactly the same, and I mean EXACTLY!!! The buildings the roads, the produce(fruit), the tropical nature, the plants, and PLANTATIONS, everything except it's not so poor, and there has been a lot of investment from somewhere into the Island over time. Catholicism, though has lost it's grip there on religion. Now there's all manner of different sects of Christianity rampant there. I am confident that they too are descended from the Jews from Portugal and Spain. They even look like the Sao Tomeans!

1:50 I am so glad to hear somebody else, besides me, feels that way. I concur GoBlack ✊🏾: "that's a hard pill for me to swallow"

The Roman empire is still alive and kicking courtesy of the Catholic church.

This man looks like a relative of Stevie Wonder. The whole time he was talking I keep thinking wow I see Stevie LOL. Their story sounds just like most African Americans and other diaspora. The scattered ones are being revealed. All praise and glory to the Most High GOD.🙏

Shalom family of Yah goblack to Afrika

This also happened in Goa.

Thank you brother's

THANK YOU MR. GBTA!!!

Great video! There's not many good videos out there on this country and great that you brought up the subject of black Jews!

This brother, looks just like many, Jamaican brothers I see

.i am a Ghanaian. Thank u so much for this channel.All Africans are brothers and sisters.we were devided by colonists.i would love to vist Soa Tome one day with my hubby

Jamaica , 10:22 African-Americans and sao tome are family from the tribe of Judah and Benjamin

Great video, thank you!

Ready!

I like the work you do. keep on do the good work. it is needed

I would to adventure in this place they got my favorite weather

I'm a Cameroonian I love Sao Tome

Come-on Doc, U, supposed to end the adventurous show, with "Go Black 2... Africa!" Great work 👍. MUCH LOVE

Your guides English is perfect.

It's time for Africa to take over these places if the inhabitants agrees. Come on guys, we can do better than that and let's start joing up. Recruit for short periods to work in the home land. would be a start. Get the finances and the labour laws right then we are ready to go. It's time for African politicans to do more useful work and less politics. Support our people who are scattered across the globe. Stronger together people. Work hard, strive for quality and pay a good wage. Our people will spend and boost the economy by buying their goods and services. Presenter keep up the good work. This is a great way for us to open up and connct with our abandon forgotten people from across the world. It all looking beautiful.

I LOVED this video!!!

Man thank you so much for visiting my homeland. It was such a shock to realise the extent of poverty still lingering on these islands. It feels like people already gave up on common prosperity. Really really sad.

The brothers and sisters in sao tome are family direct blood line to the African Americans from the tribe Judah

Thank you for the video i didn't know about this island watching from.cape town South Africa

Sorry you could not find anything, I have some information on the people. Many of the older heads were connected to those on Cabo Verde and Angola. The Portuguese destroyed a major part of the historical records of the people. M any dont know who they are or who their fore fathers were. But if you had visited the cemetery you would find Jewish Graves or head stones. I have a book on the children of Sao Tome. The 200 To 2000 children were taken from their parents who refused to accept Christian catholic. over their Hebrew faith and Torah teachings. Many were of the house of David in portugal before the inquisition started. The book From Babylon to Timbuktu has some information .

Tony seems like a good brotha. May our brothas & sistas of Sao Tome be blessesd🙏🏿

Brother glad you shared this video I will travel to Sao Tome in 2024 thanks for sharing

Wow, Goblack, thanks for this video. I didn't know much about Sao Tome... it's bad... what wytee has done to my people💔 too painful.. we need to work harder to educate our people re who they are!! Education is liberation✊

Sao tome people are descendant of what was known as the benin kingdom in Nigeria 🇳🇬. Also got angolian 🇦🇴 mix and some got portoguese 🇵🇹 in them.(equatorial guinea/congo maybe) They still hold some vocabulary spoken in the south south part of Nigeria (edo state) which is edo/esan etc...

So heartbreaking what the outsiders did to Africa, i just pray to God for justice.

Thank you so much for your contribution to the knowledge and awareness of blacks underneath to find their history

@12:47 thereabout. The guide greeted two gentlemen who were seated with a nod of the head. Got to love African culture. Very respectful

I first learn about this Island by Benyah Israel, my heart breaks for my people, from Jamaica and we went through similar situation, but were able to do better, because of migration and education. Maybe we a bit more expose to knowledge first through the Rastarian, Marcus Garvey and now the great awaken that is taken place worldwide that we are the people of the book. One day one we will get our reward.

I agree well said

That's a beautiful place with beautiful people along with low crime; if Africans could come together they could fix that island up and it would be a hot spot for tourism.

Just where our Ancestors came frome, was from the Land where the Romans ran them off. Cause the Romans Catholic people went in and started slaying them by killing men, women's children and babies. It was a few of our Ancestors that flee, so just where our Ancestors was ran off was the Land of Yisarel/Israel, The Bible never say Africa., that's why it need to be talk about.

Remember that Portugal exiled Israelite children aged 3 to 10 yrs of age to work the sugar cane fields. No parents. No direction except the overseers. They survived and so will we

Iuic needs to come visit

That guy looks like Congolese, i m sure his ancestors were Congo.

So many of them are Nigerians.

So happy that we are finally seeing Soa Tome. This place is vital in the history of black folks. This place is the closest to Africa that many blacks in the USA have ever been. The Black Europeans were taken from Spain and Portugal to this island, forced into Christianity and enslaved, and then shipped to various countries for slavery. These were the original black Jews from the house of David. Their ancestors were taken into captivity by the Romans after 70 AD when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. Many of the blacks were taken into Europe, and became citizens. Later the new regime inquisitioned them out of Europe and sent them to Sao Tome. The rest is history.

The brother looks like a younger Evander Holyfield.

I'm an African but never heard about Sao Tome before let alone this sad story. Based on the history, they were also in my country.

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The Sao guy is GOOD

My island❤

On a broader scale, this remnant is a blessing. It’s too late to hide this. Their (Portugal’s) history supports that these are the people. The fact that they were a colony of Portugal probably saved them from the “Scramble for Africa” in a de facto manner, via the Belgian Conference in 1894 1895. I’m really just now looking into all of these treaties, conferences, and bulletins that they put out over history. The only time they even partially tell the truth is when they are talking to one another in these back door treaties and meetings. They only granted them independence in 1975. “The Big Switch”, was probably presumed accomplished and undeniable by then.

Thanks for the video 😊. Are you still in Sao Tome

Pity oh pity the sons of Jacob don't get it. For lack of knowledge the sons of Jacob .... This age of knowledge you don't cacth the lies of the ideology of the devil .

I so want to go to São Tomé’.

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Is Mr GB2A still in São Tomé…. I wanted him to visit the Angalars

Goblack2Africa, thank you for visiting Sao Tome (Saint-Thomas), a place of so much history for Africans people worldwide. During the transatlantic slave trade, the Catholic Church collected a huge tax (Baptem tax) for every enslaved African shipped to South and North America. Every enslaved African had to be baptized and the Catholic Church picked up a tax for every single individual. Unfortunately, it's also true that some Africans rulers and Kings picked up taxes or bribes for enslaved Africans shipped from their shores. But Africans that went deep inside Western Africa to capture or kidnap other Africans were ruthless warlords, many of them arabo-africans, with armies of well-armed mercenaries. When Europeans decided to occupy and colonize Africa in the mid-1800s like criminals going back to the scenes of their crimes to erase history, huge portions of Central Africa (from west to east) were controlled by Arabs-Africans warlords and slaves traders like Tippu Tip ibn Muhammad, Sefu Bin Hamad, Rumaliza Muhamad or Ngongo Lutete (an African warlord). Some of these slaves-merchants warlords were named governors by Europeans invaders, but they ended up in rebellions against Europeans when they found out the truth about Europ colonisation and domination agendas.

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The true children of Ya'aqov

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We are brothers and sisters from the tribe of Judah that's all we need to know

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These people where forced out of Spain and Portugal They had to accept Christianity and stop practicing their laws and customs

Thank you so much for exposing their demonic and wicked ways to the world.

I appreciate your video guy, more grease to your elbow

I am very sorry not to be able to meet with Goblack who was in my homeland Sao Tome and Principe