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33INTRODU%u00c7%u00c3O | INTRODUCTIONof many people whose mixture over more than five centuries shaped genuine expressions, unique in the fields of folk art, literature, painting, music, sculpture, crafts, writing. People who arrived from Cabo Verde, Angola, Mozambique, adjacent regions of the Gulf of Guinea, Brazil, Portugal but also of Castile, some to be masters, others to be slaves, who, together, ended up car-ving the country that is now S%u00e3o Tome and Principe, unique, personalized, looking forward with confidence and creativity, united in its differences. There is still a tough road ahead to combat illiteracy, to realize the aspirations of the whole population, but the country has the collective essence to achieve those objectives dreamed up by Alda do Esp%u00edrito Santo, a writer, and the first Minister of Education who wove with her talent examples of the multiform cultural web of the independent and sovereign S%u00e3o Tom%u00e9 and Pr%u00edncipe.DAN%u00c7ASA dan%u00e7a %u00e9 uma das express%u00f5es culturais mais amadas pelo povo de S%u00e3o Tom%u00e9 e Pr%u00edncipe. As noites equatoriais, principalmente aos fins-desemana, s%u00e3o marcadas pelas explos%u00f5es dos ritmos africanos e dos corpos, seduzindo inapelavelmente os visitantes.Os ritmos musicais e as dan%u00e7as de S%u00e3o Tom%u00e9 e Pr%u00edncipe refletem as m%u00faltiplas influ%u00eancias das v%u00e1rias origens africanas, e n%u00e3o s%u00f3, do seu povo. Muito em voga nas discotecas continua a %u201ckadance%u201d, a par da tarraxinha, considerada espec%u00edfica do Arquip%u00e9lago.Mas s%u00e3o muitos os outros ritmos que inundam a noite, noite tantas vezes universalizada pelo conv%u00edvio com os viajantes, e que podem ser a pu%u00edta, o funan%u00e1, o kuduro, a kizomba, dombol%u00f4, kuassakuassa, regu%u00ea (reggae), pop e rap. Fora das discotecas conservam-se ra%u00edzes culturais mais profundas, associadas a rituais de g%u00e9nese tribal como a %u00fassua, o socop%u00e9, o bulaw%u00ea e a dan%u00e7o-congo, considerada a mais genu%u00edna e africana, dan%u00e7ada com emocionante envolvimento pelos Angolares.DANCEDance is one of the cultural expressions most loved by the people of Sao Tome and Principe. The