page_title: Islands of Africa
section_title: Atlantic Ocean islands
hierarchical_section_title: Islands of Africa / Geography and history / Sovereign island nations / Atlantic Ocean islands
context_page_description: The islands of Africa are a major geographical sub-region of Africa, and represent a distinct demographic and historical cultural sphere of influence on the continent.
context_section_description: There are two sovereign island nations in the Atlantic Ocean: São Tomé and Príncipe and Cape Verde. Both islands share some historical and demographic features, especially in relation to their uses as transit points during the Atlantic slave trade.
  Neither São Tomé and Príncipe nor Cape Verde were inhabited before European colonization in the wake of the Atlantic slave trade.
caption: São Vicente in Cape Verde
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