A young Sao Tomense boy shows us a coffee bush in flower on the plantation 'Roca Nova Moka' in Sao Tom? and Princip?. The plantation is 12 hectares in size, but was once part of the much larger plantation 'Monte Cafe'. It lies in teh North West of Sao Tom? and Princip?. The plantation now only produces coffee. 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.