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Eugénio Tavares
Eugénio de Paula Tavares (born 18 October 1867 in the island of Brava; died 1 June 1930 in Vila Nova Sintra) was a Cape Verdean poet. He is known through his famous poems (''mornas''), mostly written in the Creole of Brava. Biography Eugénio de Paula Tavares was born on the island of Brava in October 1867 to Francisco de Paula Tavares and Eugénia Roiz Nozzolini Tavares. His family is mainly descended from Santarém, Portugal. He was baptized at the Saint John the Baptist (São João Baptista) church in Brava. A few years later, his father starved to death and he was adopted by José and Eugénia Martins de Vera Cruz. José Martins de Vera Cruz, a physician and surgeon who was also mayor of Boa Vista and Sal (Sal was not its own municipality until the 1930s) and later of Brava after he moved. One of his distant relatives João José de Sena was mayor of the island. In 1876, he attended Nova Sintra's primary school (''Escola Primária''). Most of his times, he never atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brava, Cape Verde
Brava (Portuguese for "wild" or "brave") is an island in Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. At , it is the smallest inhabited island of the Cape Verde archipelago, but at the same time the greenest. First settled in the early 16th century, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1680. For more than a century, its main industry was whaling, but the island economy is now primarily agricultural. History Brava was discovered in 1462 by the Portuguese explorer Diogo Afonso.Valor simbólico do centro histórico da Praia Lourenço Conceição Gomes, Universidade Portucalense, 2008, p. 97 There is no evidence of human presence on the Cape Verde islands before the arrival of the Portuguese. Around 1620 the population of Brava started with the arrival of settlers from |
Monumento Ao Emigrante, Praia, Cape Verde
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Monumento may refer to: * ''Monumento'' (album), a 2008 album by Dakrya * Monumento, a district in Caloocan, Philippines where the Bonifacio Monument is located ** Monumento LRT Station See also ''Monumento'' means monument in Portuguese, Spanish, and Filipino. For relevant articles in Wikipedia see: * Monuments of Portugal * Monument (Spain) The current legislation regarding historical monuments in Spain dates from 1985. However, ''Monumentos nacionales'' (to use the original term) were first designated in the nineteenth century. It was a fairly broad category for national heritage sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afonso Dias
Afonso Dias is a Portuguese singer, musician, poet and actor. He was deputy of the Constitution Assembly of 1975/76 under the Popular Democratic Union (Portugal) (later, he did not exercise in other political offices). In music, he was one of the founders of Grupo de Acção Cultural (GAC, the Cultural Group Action). He was elected in numerous presentation inside and outside Portugal, though he recorded different discs in the studio. Throughout his career, he took part in artistic shows with José Afonso, Sérgio Godinho, Francisco Fanhais, Manuel Freire, Pedro Barroso, Tino Flores, José Fanha and others, he had edited several solo studio albums. In theater, in the 1960s and the 1970s, he attended theatrical plays with Costa Ferreira, Carmen Dolores and Rogério Paulo. He was the founded of Trupe Barlaventina - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poesia De Cabo Verde E Sete Poemas De Sebastião Da Gama
''Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama'' (''Poetry of Cape Verde and Seven Poems by Sebastião da Gama'') is a collection of poems released in a CD by Afonso Dias and other "guests" (Carlos Germano, Luís Vicente, Mina Andala and Paulo Moreira), it was edited as part of ''Associação Música XXI'' (''XXI (21st) Music Association'') in Faro, Portugal in June 2007. Poems The Cape Verdean poems represented in the CD, in the order of appearance are: See also *Literature of Cape Verde The Literature of Cape Verde is among the most important in West Africa, it is the second richest in West Africa after Mali and modern day Mauritania. It is also the richest in the Lusophone portion of Africa. Most works are written in Portuguese, ... References External linksAssociação Música XXI (''XXI Music Association'') of Faro, Portugal Cape Verdean literature {{CapeVerde-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Verdean Escudo
The escudo (sign: ; ISO 4217: CVE) is the currency of the Republic of Cape Verde. One escudo is subdivided into one hundred ''centavos''. Amounts are generally written by using the () as the decimal separator, such as for 20 escudos, or for 1000. History The escudo became the currency of Cape Verde in 1914. It replaced the Cape Verdean real at a rate of 1000 = 1 escudo. Until 1930, Cape Verde used Portuguese coins, although banknotes were issued by the Banco Nacional Ultramarino specifically for Cape Verde beginning in 1865. Until independence in 1975, the Cape Verde escudo was equal to the Portuguese escudo. Subsequently, it depreciated, declining by about 30 per cent in 1977–78 and by a further 40 per cent in 1982–84. Thereafter, it remained fairly stable against the Portuguese escudo. In mid-1998 an agreement with Portugal established a pegged rate of 1 Portuguese escudo = 0.55 Cape Verdean escudos. Since the replacement of the Portuguese escudo with the euro, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Mascarenhas Monteiro
António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro (; 16 February 1944 – 16 September 2016) was the first democratically elected President of Cape Verde from 22 March 1991 to 22 March 2001. Early life and education Born in Ribeira da Barca in 1944, Monteiro went to university in Belgium and graduated with his law degree from the Catholic University of Leuven. Political career During the PAICV's single-party government, Monteiro served in various high level positions. He was the Secretary-General of the National Assembly from 1977 to 1980 and President of the Supreme Court of Justice from 1980 to 1990. Presidency of Cape Verde Affiliated with the Movement for Democracy, he was the first president elected in a multi-party election in the country, defeating Aristides Pereira in the February 1991 presidential election. In February 1995, he awarded one of the archipelago's greatest writer during the colonial era Eugénio Tavares the Medal of the Ordem do Vulcão. He was re-elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordem Do Vulcão
Ordem do Vulcão (Portuguese for the ''Order of Vulcan'' or ''Order of the Volcano''), also named as the Medal of the 1st Class of Ordem do Vulcão is a national award that is done each year by the President of Cape Verde, it is awarded to the greatest personalities of Cape Verde and non-Cape Verdeans, which contributes to an aggrandizement of the nation. It is the main decoration of the country created after the independence of the nation. Ranks It has the following ranks: * Medal of the 1st Rank * Medal of the 2nd Rank * Medal of the 3rd Rank Recipients *Eugénio Tavares, 1995 *João Lopes Filho, 2004 * Amélia da Lomba, 2005 - the first non-Cape Verdean to be awarded *Cesária Évora, 2006 * Mário Lúcio Sousa, 2006 *Edite Borges, 2011 *Gil Semedo Gil Semedo Moreira (born October 25, 1974), better known by his stage name Gil Semedo, is a Cape Verdean recording artist, songwriter, businessman, and record producer. He rose to prominence in 1991 following the release of "Men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Mariano
José Gabriel Lopes da Silva, also known as Gabriel Mariano (May 18, 1928 in Ribeira Grande – February 18, 2002 in Lisbon, Portugal), was a Cape Verdean poet, novelist, and an essayist. He studied at São Joaquim and graduated as director in Lisbon. He returned to Cape Verde 1950 where he participated in the creation of the magazine ''Restoration'' (with Jorge Pedro Barbosa and others), the ''Cultural Supplement'' (with Carlos Alberto Monteiro and others) and ''Boletim Cabo Verde'' (''Cabo Verde Bulletin''). His cultural activity brought him to the attention of the local governor and he was deported to Mozambique. He published poems, novels and essays, in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. After independence, he returned to Cape Verde. He wrote ''Vida e Morte de João Cabafume'' in 1976 which won the African Literary Award, an essay on Capeverdean culture in 1991 and a poetic anthology named ''Ladeira Grande'' in 1993. He spent the remainder of his life in Portugal, he d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celina Pereira
Celina Pereira (10 September 1940 - 17 December 2020) was a Cape Verdean singer and an educator. Career She was a primary school teacher in Viseu. She published her first single in 1979 ''Bobista'' (now spelt as ''Bubista'' in Boa Vista Creole) by the label Discos Monte Cara by Bana (singer), Bana. In 1986, she recorded her first album ''Força di Cretcheu'' (''Força do Meu Amor'') and was arranged by the music director Paulino Vieira and includes stories of nursery rhymes, plays and work. In 1990, she released the LP ''Estória, Estória... No Arquipélago das Maravilhas'' which was also done by Paulino Vieira. She started worked to tell stories in the United States in 1991. She published the album ''Nós Tradição'' (''Our Tradition'') along with the French publisher Melódie in 1993. She took part in the compilation ''Pensa nisto!...''. The disc ''Harpejos e Gorjejos'' was published in 1998 and sang in Portuguese and Creole. Told with the musical director Zé Afonso. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora GCIH (; 27 August 194117 December 2011), more commonly known as Cize, was a Cape Verdean singer-songwriter. She received a Grammy Award in 2004 for her album '' Voz d'Amor''. Nicknamed the "Barefoot Diva" for performing without shoes, she was known as the "Queen of Morna". Évora began singing as a young woman in bars in her hometown of Mindelo, and came to international prominence in the 1990s. Biography Early life Cesária Évora was born on 27 August 1941 in Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde. When she was seven years old her father, Justino da Cruz Évora, who was a part-time musician, died, and at the age of ten she was placed in an orphanage, as her mother Dona Joana could not raise all six children. At the age of 16, she was persuaded by a friend to sing in a sailors' tavern. She grew up at the house in Mindelo which other singers used from the 1940s to the 1970s, at 35 Rua de Moeda. Other Cape Verdean singers came to the house, including Djô d'Eloy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Piaget University Of Cape Verde
The Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde ( pt, Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde) is a private university in Cape Verde. The university is named after the famous Swiss child psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget. The university was established on 7 May 2001, and now has about 2,000 students and 380 academic staff. The main campus is in the capital city Praia ( Palmarejo subdivision) on the island of Santiago, with a smaller second location in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, opened in 2005. Jean Piaget University offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as continuing education courses. Notable alumni José Ulisses Correia e Silva, now prime minister lectured at the university. Former teachers included Janira Hopffer Almada who later became a politician from 2014 to 2016. Faculties *Science and Technology *Health Science and Environment *Political Science *Economy and Commerce Praia Campus *Architecture *Biology *Civil Construction Engineering *Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
