Roça Agostinho Neto

São Tomé


Once the grandest plantation in STP, Agostinho Neto is now the grandest symbol of its decline. The impressive entrance, a wide boulevard leading to the huge hospital building, now leads to a squatter village of nearly 5000 people without a decent water supply. The famous hospital building, as depicted in perfect condition on the 5000 dobra note, is slowly collapsing.

This is a powerful image of the fate of post-independence STP, and worth seeing for that reason. Dirt road entrance through broken wall on left exactly 1km past the Km9 marker.


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