Ângelo (Aíto) de Jesus Bonfim is a lawyer, with a degree in Law by the Lisbon Classical University in 1982. In Portugal he also obtained a judicial training at the Centre for Judicial Studies in Lisbon. Currently, he works as a lawyer in São Tomé and in the period of 2001 to 2011 he was the legal counselor of the President of the Republic Fradique de Menezes. In this capacity, he participated in the negotiations related to the perspectives of oil extraction. As a writer, Aíto Bonfim published plays, prose and poetry, openly assuming that the main theme of his work is the criticism of the African political power in the post-independence period. His play Berlinização ou partilha de África was banned by the regime of one-party state at the ...

Albertino Bragança, writer and politician from São Tomé, was born in 1944. He got his degree in Electrotechnical Engineering at Coimbra University. In 1975 he moved back to his home country and since then carried various public duties. He was Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is as well one of the founding members of the National Union of Writers and Artists of São Tome and Príncipe. His literary work contains of three books: Rosa de Riboque e Outros Contos (Rose from Riboque and Other Stories, 1985), Um Clarão Sobre a Baía (A Flash Over the Bay, 2004) and Aurélia de Vento (Aurélia Made of Wind, 2011). In 2005 he published an ethnographic work A Música Popular Santomense (The Popular Music of São Tomé). ...

Conceição Lima is a poet and journalist from São Tomé. She studied journalism in Portugal and worked for radio, TV and press in São Tomé and Principe. In 1993 she founded the independent magazine O País Hoje. She was its editor-in-chief for the whole time of its existence. She has a degree in Afro-Portuguese and Brazilian Studies by King's College, London. She was a producer of the BBC Service in Portuguese. Lima lives and works as a journalist in her home country. Her poems were published in journals, magazines and anthologies in many countries. She published three poetry books: O Útero da Casa (The Uterus of the Home, 2004), A Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó (The Painful Root of Micondó, 2006) and O País do Akendenguê (The Country of Akendenguê, 2011). ...