A woman from the Cape Verde, who has been living on the island of Princip? since she was a young girl. During Portuguese rule 1000's came from the Cape Verde to work the plantations. 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. Princip? is the smaller of the two islands with a population of around 5000.