Manuel Pinto da Costa is a Santomean economist and politician who served as the first president of São Tomé and Príncipe from 1975 to 1991. He again served as president from 2011 to 2016.
Pinto da Costa in January 2014
Pinto da Costa during a state visit in September 1986
São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, the western equatorial coast of Central Africa.
São Sebastião Museum in São Tomé
Capture of São Tomé by Cornelis Jol of the Dutch West India Company in 1641.
Railroad in São Tomé and Príncipe circa 1919
The Our Lady of Grace Cathedral of São Tomé