ROÇAS - ALIVE MUSEUM
I can´t speak about cocoa and
forget the roças.
You will ask
yourself what roças means?
So, in this chapter
I will share same pictures and information about the roças.
When I came back to São Tomé 1 year ago,
I visited some roça, and the first sensation that I felt was I am living in
sec. XIX, it was like I am living in that time, because the building was with
the same architecture as before.
I went to several museums in Europa, but the sensation isn´t the same. It was very different; the words could not explain
that just living in.
Anyway, I am going to focus about
the roças.
Roças was the colonial plantation
house. Normally, was divided in administration; technology part, plantation of
cocoa or cafe and the worker house, sanzala.
In São Tomé there are 150 roças
around all rhe island.
The roças was like a
small company with their budget and production.
The main House:
Roça Água Izé
Uba-Budo
Nova Moka
Boa Entrada
Picures of worker house:
Tecnology transformation part: