1918-1939 History of Central Africa Independence






Sao Tome 1939-1975



Portugal stayed neutral through much of World War II. The righist Salazar administration treated the colonies heavy-handedly. To keep the ailing plantation economy going, an attempt was made to force the local island inhabitants to work them; their resistance was broken in the BATEPA MASSACRE (1953). A national liberation movement began.
The islands had been declared a Portuguese OVERSEAS PROVINCE in 1951.
Following the Portuguese Velvet Revolution (1974), the islands of Sao Tome and Principe were granted independence in 1975.






EXTERNAL
FILES
Sao Tome and Principe, History of, from Infoplease
DOCUMENTS
REFERENCE Article Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1945 pp.560-561 (on events of 1944) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Provinces, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1946, pp.591-592 (on events of 1945) [G]
Article Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1947 p.614 (on events of 1946) [G]
Article Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1948 p.600 (on events of 1947) [G]
Article Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1949 pp.532-533 (on events of 1948) [G]
Article Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1950 p.558 (on events in 1949) [G]
Article Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1951 p.565 (on events in 1950) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1952 p.567 (on events in 1951) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1953 p. 575 (on events of 1952) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1954 pp. 574-575 (on events of 1953) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1955 pp. 623-624 (on events of 1954) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1956 pp. 561-562 (on events of 1955) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1957 pp. 624-625 (on events of 1956) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1958 pp. 557-559 (on events of 1957) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1959 pp. 556-557 (on events of 1958) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1960 pp. 557-558 (on events of 1959) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Provinces, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1961 pp. 569-570 (on events of 1960) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Provinces, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1962 pp. 558-561 (on events of 1961) [G]
Article Portuguese Overseas Provinces, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1963, pp.662-664 (on events of 1962) [G]
Article Colonies and Dependent Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1964, pp.265-268 (on events of 1963) [G]
Article Colonies and Other Dependencies, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1965, p.255 (on events of 1964) [G]
Article Colonies and Other Dependencies, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1966, p.206 (on events of 1965) [G]
Article Colonies and Other Dependencies, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1967, p.221 (on events of 1966) [G]
Article Colonies and Other Dependencies, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1968, p.219 (on events of 1967) [G]
Article Dependent States : Sao Tome et Principe, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1969 pp.280-281 (on events of 1968) [G]
Article Dependent States : Sao Tome et Principe, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1970 p.281 (on events of 1969) [G]
Article Dependent States : Sao Tome et Principe, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1971 p.271 (on events of 1970) [G]
Article Dependent States : Sao Tome et Principe, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1973 p.234 (on events of 1972) [G]
Article Dependent States : Africa, Portuguese, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1975 p.229 (on events in 1974) [G]
Shubi L. Ishemo, Forced Labour and Migration in Portuguese African Colonies, pp.162-165 in : Robin Cohen, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, Cambridge : UP 1995, KMLA Lib.Sign. 304.809 C678c
Article : Portugal : Sao Tome e Principe, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1943 p.1200, 1970-1971 p.1259, 1975-1976 pp.1263-1264 [G]
Article : Sao Thome and Principe, in : Americana Annual 1943 p.650, 1944 p.626 [G]
Article : Portuguese Colonial Empire - Sao Tome and Principe, in : Americana Annual 1945 p.591, 1946 pp.613-614 [G]
Article : Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Americana Annual 1947 pp.576-577 [G]
Article : Portuguese Territories - Sao Tome and Principe, in : Americana Annual 1957 pp.637-638, 1961 pp.604-605 [G]
Article : Portuguese Territories, in : Americana Annual 1962 pp.610-612, 1963 pp.541-543, 1964 pp.538-539 [G]



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