A Sao Tomense woman sifts the dust from the cocoa beans at the cocoa plant in the village of Agua Iz??. The idea is that wind will take the dust from the beans as they are repeatedly poured between two baskets. 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.