Sao Tome and Principe: The Islands in the Middle of the World

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Ай бұрын

Positioned just off Gabon's coast and secluded from the rest of the globe, this stands as one of Africa's tiniest nations. Its populace is a blend of the descendents of slaves and the initial Portuguese settlers. Within these untouched islands, where Nature is so generous, the people of Sao Tome and Principe revel in a paradise of lush forests, towering peaks, and azure seas.
Director: Scott Schneider

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@janetmwikali5477 28 күн бұрын

I know very little about Sao Tome Princip,so the moment I saw this documentary, I just clicked coz I was intrigued,, from Kenya 🇰🇪

@jollypippa3632 24 күн бұрын

Me too. From 🇳🇬

@invictus4549 16 күн бұрын

There is another side of the country . They are just as modern like all other countries

@arietteiraopodhi6294 22 күн бұрын

“Brothers, unite. It’s the key to make our country great, gaining confidence and finding happiness. United, we could find all the answers. My brother, if we unite our country will change.” A beautiful song from São Tomé 💜🙏🏿

@deniseloua8625 7 күн бұрын

Africa is a Continent NOT A Country!

@azubuikechijioke7712 29 күн бұрын

Am a Nigeria I visited there is year 2012 verry beautiful place I have a friend here father is from there mother is from Spain

@ChocolateMelanin Ай бұрын

As a herbalist myself. This is wonderful ❤ The children really need to learn this tradition of healing themselves with herbs 🌿

@l67skidz18 Ай бұрын

Seeing this man do the best he can each day to restore 1 big piece of the under water environment is rebuilding my faith in part's of humanity I didn't think existed, thank you from down under Australia 😊

@bloco4u 16 күн бұрын

Hoping the elders and people of the island are well compensated for sharing their knowledge and ancient wisdom with the world.

@MardiMoinjeh 25 күн бұрын

They look like my siblings, relative, uncle, aunty, just like West Africa people, we are all the same people of Yah❤❤

@renexburrell9447 26 күн бұрын

❤ I. Really. Enjoy. This. Documentary. Watching. From. Yhe. Beautiful. Island. Of. Jamaica

@ByteStrings Ай бұрын

Nice village life.. this is just a wonderful place.

@malwads1836 9 күн бұрын

That simple slower paced life certainly has a unique charm that many westerners today have forgotten.

@SiroFits 11 күн бұрын

so awesome to see these documentary since I knew very little about this place apart from what I learnt in geography

@opticalmixing23 Ай бұрын

Your channel seems to have a lot of useful information. I'll check it out. Thank you so much!

@mahoganystructure 25 күн бұрын

Very resourceful island, love to see it.

@charlinesworld Ай бұрын

Thanks to all of you for doing your part for our planet ❤️ ❤❤❤❤

@JanSHarrison 25 күн бұрын

“I really think adding a little sugar would make it better…it’s really bitter .” Always, trying to change things. Outside of the excellent documentary of beautiful people.

@malwads1836 9 күн бұрын

Westerners are in general not very used to discomfort so taking bitter herbs/remedies isn't something most of them do...Also they're typically used to eating/drinking a lot of added sugar so they tend to expect things to not be bitter or even just bland.A few of us like myself & my mother mix up very bitter herbs to drink for health but we're unusual🤗.

@Abdullahkhan-vs3wp Ай бұрын

Wow breath taking moment

@charlinesworld Ай бұрын

How can I get her book when it comes out?

@OrlandoGustar Ай бұрын

Here in the Philippines we call the Herbal Healers " ALBULARYO" from the Spanish word "HERBOLARIO" ....these days not a lot of Filipinos believe in their way of healing unlike maybe 50-60 years ago.

@mybigsteaminjohn4027 Ай бұрын

Herbal healing is nowhere near as effective as modern medicine

@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Ай бұрын

That's what they had 50-60 years ago, we have come a long way since then. Doesn't mean there isn't room for both

@marcusgarvey9726 2 күн бұрын

Amazing and beautiful

@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Ай бұрын

There was no discussion of there politics, how they obtain water, what other ways of making a living are there, what other crops are grown, villages and ways of living, the religion, transportation, i loved what I saw, but there was so much more to learn.

@jon1591 Ай бұрын

Read a fucking book on the country then.

@josephgittamusisi4226 Ай бұрын

Honestly true!😅

@loktstar-kongotronix Ай бұрын

N.W.O is coming to your PARADISE very sooon !!!! From then on its gonna be Full chemical, GMOs, Fluoride, petro-BIGPHARMA Mc donals, coca cola, puberty-Blockers, po*n etc etc... the devlis are coming to your HEAVEN.....

@marniesaidi8056 Ай бұрын

The country is very rich in culture and history. It would take a longer documentary to address it all, but in short, and to answer your questions, they have an active democracy, people may speak freely about their political views; The islands are subtropical - there is plenty of rainfall, and no lack of water, although it is rarely plumbed, but rather obtained from the nearest spring, stream, or outdoor laundry; apart from fishing and agriculture, there is work in tourism, the islands being a popular spot for people coming from or flying through Portugal via direct flight; apart from cacao, coffee, vanilla, and pepper are produced; whilst traditionally the islanders are mostly of Catholic persuasion, there are around nine other Christian denominations; transport between the islands is made by plane or boat, and motorbikes are used extensively within the islands, being used as the most common kind of taxi service too...truly there is so much to find about on these islands. They are very beautiful and special.

@sierrakobold6896 13 күн бұрын

@@marniesaidi8056 the islands absolutely are not subtropical, they are tropical islands

@JimPeachley 16 күн бұрын

Beautiful country. Beautiful people making the best life they can with what they have. It's a difficult job the environmental official has, trying to help people understand conservation in order to sustain their future. And it's a tough call, weighing the cutting down of one tree to make two boats versus the high cost of buying boats made of synthetic materials which may have an even greater environmental impact. He needs the wisdom of Solomon to do his work.

@vincem2759 22 сағат бұрын

I would love that book.

@SweetChicagoGator 10 күн бұрын

Fresh, delicious cocoa ! How wonderful to have the real deal ! 💟 🥰

@rizwanofficial9748 Ай бұрын

Amazing documentary movie

@NAMADJIRA Ай бұрын

Wonderful place.....❤❤❤❤

@taxitoursoflondon Ай бұрын

I enjoyed this documentary as I like nature, it amazes me what God has created that can heal us.

@idecidenotyou Ай бұрын

This world is not created by god.. God was on the planet a mere 2000 years ago.. 🦕 were here 65million years ago.. it's over 100million years old.. no God there.. only evolution..😂

@tambechurchillashu5394 10 күн бұрын

Beautiful

@motivationalspeaker1917 Ай бұрын

it's so beautiful 🤩

@greglangot1538 Ай бұрын

A very beautiful island

@asadullahkhan3388 Ай бұрын

Amazing movie

@hernestoferreira Ай бұрын

Excelente filme

@MusikJoy Ай бұрын

hopefully i see his amazing music in future

@bighand1530 24 күн бұрын

Same

@hosahallipadmesh7698 14 күн бұрын

In New Zealand, there were billions of kauri trees when the European settlers arrived . In about 100 years these magnificent trees were cut down by then , now there are few thousands left. The European settlers destroyed the nature all over the world.

@mathewabel3762 23 күн бұрын

Thank you,, now I have a good day

@rizwanofficial9748 Ай бұрын

Nice

@maryjoseph9894 Ай бұрын

What a wonderful man and community. God bless u all how can we get 5he music to buy.

@idecidenotyou Ай бұрын

No god.. no need to say that

@JBoss44 Ай бұрын

Did this man say a mix of the descendents of slaves and the original Portuguese colonist. It's hella close to Africa!

@shelbourneking4135 Ай бұрын

There were no people on the islands before the Portuguese Discovered them .

@atilla4372 Ай бұрын

The island was uninhabited until the Portuguese came and brought slaves from modern day Angola.

@mbenembene2841 Ай бұрын

Bro. 39 years old with 9 children? How much land do you own?

@azubuikechijioke7712 29 күн бұрын

That man is a king 👑 in Africa

@alesiaburgzorg8931 Ай бұрын

God bless them for what the do

@benjaminmawutor3672 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤NATURAL BEAUTY ❤❤❤❤

@SohJean 24 күн бұрын

Save the sea turtles, do not eat her eggs & her meat... Kind & loving young man doing rescue work, incubation & release.. ❤,

@mariadefatima6469 2 күн бұрын

Its paradise!!!!!

@nicolarollinson4381 Ай бұрын

Cutting down one tree, that takes 20 years to grow, to make a boat is sustainable. Another will grow up in its place. The turtle thing is another issue altogether.

@islamictv6207 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@gilberttello08 11 күн бұрын

👌👌

@kakemborichard7928 Ай бұрын

Do these small babies really swim nd survive in this huge sea without their parents

@albertodiaz1077 Ай бұрын

Isaiah 11:11-12 KJV And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

@idecidenotyou Ай бұрын

That shits false.. god and his nuts where her 2000 years ago, dinosaurs roamed the earth 65million years ago.. wake up fool

@janetmwikali5477 28 күн бұрын

It seems like schools in other countries there's a lot of freedom, like you can go to school with a mohawk haircut 😂, rainbow braids 😂,here in Kenya, school life is the most difficult phase 😢the strictness in Kenyan schools is on another level 😅😅

@wambuievelynwaithira 28 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂we have rules in kenya like noboody nonsense 😂😂

@israel_started_it_ALL_in_1948 Ай бұрын

Sao Tome

@arietteiraopodhi6294 22 күн бұрын

Sea turtles are in endangered animals? 😢

@joaofernandes1817 Ай бұрын

Sinceramente eu não entendo por que são Tomé e príncipe não fazem parte de Portugal

@saragomes6242 Ай бұрын

Porque eles escolheram serem independentes, ou melhor os seguidores da doutrina comunista, podiam agora serem como a Madeira e os Açores

@sidvicious647 Ай бұрын

Because its Africa , Duh !

@amestoy1418 Ай бұрын

Ur boat is too close to the dolphins you might injure them. Stop doing that.

@javad1954 Ай бұрын

متشکرم

@chineduokafor7305 Ай бұрын

God is great

@idecidenotyou Ай бұрын

God was on the planet a mere 2000 years ago dinosaurs roamed the earth 65million years ago.. wake up fool

@idecidenotyou Ай бұрын

Not real.. do the research..

@sidvicious647 Ай бұрын

Those "slaves" are the Descendants of the exiled Yahudim its all well Documented so if you want to know what the Ancient People of Yisrael looked like, there you have it !!!

@idecidenotyou Ай бұрын

Aswell as God did not create everything.. evolution did.. 65million years ago before God and Jesus was on earth.. they were here poor and homeless vagabonds 2000 years ago

@kamauwikeepa7308 14 күн бұрын

Inexhaustible is not created by the people who have always depended on the sea for their food supply, rather by outside conglomerates fishing only to make a profit. Modern technology has increased the tonnage of harvesting from the sea,not these poor people. Education is good, but look to your own backyard. They are not the cause of world wide over fishing and things such as deforestation, but the demon conglomerates. Where else can these people go, whose resources have been effected by modern technology. Unfortunately it is always the result of western civilization and encroachment on the lesser people who barely get enough to survive. Resulting on intrusion by these mammoths to include them in the decline of resources. It's a fact it's far easier to remove or convince these people of a dilemma begun somewhere else.

@qutub-ul-walikhan2459 Күн бұрын

sad cutting trees, and after cutting they wasted with tradition way, it should be carved or made with tool so that the waste used for other domestic use.

@Fanfacty Ай бұрын

Singing is definitely not his thing 😂😅

@SohJean 24 күн бұрын

Sea turtle survival rate is very low...

@whereisgabri3641 Ай бұрын

“We need to preserve the environment for the coming generations”. Next scene is them cutting a secular tree to make a boat.

@user-zf4uz3hy8z Ай бұрын

They got here doing that for millenia, possibly! What made you think that now it is a problem?

@BrandyLyrics Ай бұрын

Beautiful island. They should build a resort

@missyette Ай бұрын

Resorts are usually what starts distroying beautiful places

@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Ай бұрын

Great plan🤦🏻‍♀️because bulldozing everything as contractors do, always makes everything so much better. LEAVE SH¡T ALONE

@ChocolateMelanin Ай бұрын

See this is why countries get destroyed, why build a resort on an island of indigenous people who has lived there for centuries 🤦🏾‍♀️

@malwads1836 9 күн бұрын

@@ChocolateMelaninLook at the 💩 that happened in places like Hawaii.

@user-zf4uz3hy8z Ай бұрын

So these people lived for generations fishing turtles and making canoes from trees, then an NGO comes from the outside and pays a couple of people to instil a sense of guilt on them for their millennial way of life?

@idecidenotyou Ай бұрын

Wrong is wrong..no matter who you think you are.. pathetic way of thinking such as yours is why, you will never become anything other than ignorant.

@malwads1836 9 күн бұрын

Oh yes because the westerners know best as many of their families fall apart & their community ties sever and their land/water becomes ever more polluted.The 🇺🇸 for example is a poster child for this way of 💭 & more of us need to realize this way of 💭 is flawed even if sometimes we have good intentions with it.

@josephgittamusisi4226 Ай бұрын

2:44 The man believes in reincarnation 😢 May be i was turtoise in my previous life and i have come back as ahuman ! Life😥😭😭😭

@shelbourneking4135 Ай бұрын

There were no one living on the islands before the Portuguese discovered them .

@giftndori9362 Ай бұрын

🙏🏽🌍🫡

@valariemaria8232 Ай бұрын

Hope thee white lady is not stealing the herbal remedies in the pretext of helping .🤔

@malwads1836 9 күн бұрын

Many European decent people seem to have a way of taking advantage of other people's natural resources...If only more of us would take advantage of the positive life lessons & teachings these folks have to offer😮‍💨.

@idecidenotyou Ай бұрын

@43mins i realized just how unintelligent these ppl truly were.. blew my mind.

@mrpotato4441 Ай бұрын

Dude used to be a turtle

@ontheedge33371 Ай бұрын

That’s ridiculous in these times , killing a huge tree that is hundreds of years old for a single boat ! The cost to the planet outweighs the benefit to a few people by millions of times ! A single fibre glass or aluminum boat will last way longer and the trees can keep cleaning the air and water giving many animals life including the human animal !

@joaofernandes1817 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@kddicks5115 Ай бұрын

Wow. How incredibly egocentric of to think that our way is the ONLY way. You live in a house? How many trees came down to build one SINGLE HOUSE?? Check yourself….

@kidd7359 Ай бұрын

They had the capitalism priest bless them before cutting the tree. Capitalism good, tradition bad

@jayc3614 Ай бұрын

That boat will last as long and longer than a fiberglass boat takes to crystallize. It is Also very bad for health and the environment

@jayc3614 Ай бұрын

It takes 20 years to regrow. Plant one mark it everytime you clear one it's not that big a deal if people live in balance you all just can't understand it living in metropolis that exploit governments of people who live more in harmony than you'll appreciate as they still sink more carbon than the places you drive in a year

@HangYou-jz8yj Ай бұрын

Middle of the world is just not possible because of the shape of the earth. There can be no middle in a GEOID.

@Eddyke Ай бұрын

As regards time it is in the middle the Greenwich and equator meet there

@oralcummings4850 Ай бұрын

You can't stop the European.They come to these parts to learn,take the knowledge back to their continent and convert it into $$$$.This makes them millionaires.

@malwads1836 9 күн бұрын

Try the Americans...Our country ❤️ to tell itself we're "#1" & that we're the gold standard for the rest of the 🌎 to follow but in reality our families are falling apart, our land/water is polluted, our society 💭 that wealth equals success & "happiness", etc.We are the modern dumpster 🔥 that tries to sell itself as paradise & it is 💔.

@oralcummings4850 9 күн бұрын

True@@malwads1836