Ravages of time on an African cocoa plantation Time has not been kind to Agostinho Neto. In this town in Sao Tome and Principe, a small archipelago off the coast of Gabon off Africa's western coast and once the world's leading cocoa exporter, former workers of colonial cocoa and coffee plantations still live on these grounds, now only a shadow of their more prosperous past. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES from the town and its inhabitants