Silas Tiny

“Rio do Ouro and Água-Izé were among the largest cocoa plantations in São Tomé and Príncipe during the Portuguese colonial era. Thousands were marked by forced labour equivalent to slavery. I return to my country to find the traces of that past.” — Silas Tiny

Equatorial Constellations reflects on the role that São Tomé, a former Portuguese colony, played in saving hundreds of thousands of children from starvation following the Nigerian-Biafran War.