Manuel Pinto da Costa is the first President of São Tomé and Príncipe, serving from 1975 to 1991. Born in 1937 in the village of Guadalupe, São Tomé, he is an ethnic São Toméan. Da Costa’s political career began in the early 1960s when he joined the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe, a political party fighting for independence from Portuguese colonial rule. In 1974, he...
Pioneering the Presidency: São Tomé and Príncipe’s First Presidential Leader
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