Coconuts piled high near the town of Sao Joao dos Angolares in Sao Tom?? and Princip??. The coconuts are ready to be broken and dried. Sao Joao dos Angolares lies on the east coast of Sao Tom?? and Princip?? and relies on fishing and the farming of coffee and coconuts. Sao Tom?? and Princip?? is Africa's second smallest country with a population of 193 000. It consists of two mountainous islands in the Gulf of New Guinea, straddling the equator, west of Gabon.