ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to unpack meanings related with two stone monuments a Fort built in colonial times and a memorial built in a postcolonial context and with the geographical, economical and political contexts in which the islands are presently living. It analyses the sixteenth century built Fort Sao Sebastiao, in Sao Tome city, providing an extensive descriptive view/visit/stroll of the National Museum established there in 1976. The chapter examines larger issues that have been shaping the Gulf region in the past decades, focuses on oil business and spatial and social changes. It is perhaps an abrupt move to jump from speculative readings of the micro geographies of the National Museum of Sao Tome Principe (STP) and its host building, to a somehow vague and brief account of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea (EG) and other Gulf countries spatialities.
