A loja is a kind of a grocery-bar or a characteristic boutique in

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, which makes up a subdivision of a Creole lifestyle.Nicolas Quint, "Civilisation : Les épiceries-bars et le grogue" (''Civilization: Grocery-Bar and Grogue''), ''Parlons capverdien : langue et culture'' (''Cape Verdean Terms: Language and Culture''), L'Harmattan, 2003, p. 116-117 The work of ''lojas'', are found in both the town and the countryside. The boss stands right behind the bar counter where groceries and consumer goods are placed on shelves. Clients stay on the other side for a drink (men) or shop (women and children). During the colonial era, ''lojas'' were founded throughout the

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in Africa. Notable goods included petroleum lamps, preserves, plastic sandals, matches, oils, fabrics, sugar, salt and pasta. These retail businesses were generally held by the mixed (''mestiços'') people who accepted the intermediate social level - albeit modest - enabled them to assert a form of a superiority over the indigenous people. In an article by

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, it analyzed the social structure of Fogo, his native islands, both in his novels and in his essays, showed the concern of white families with the rise of the mixed in the late 1940s, they feared the moment that "the blacks would be pushed into the ''funco'' ;

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it would take the place of the mixed with the ''loja'' and the latter would put the Whites to the ''sobrado''.Nelson Eurico Cabral, ''Le moulin et le pilon, les îles du Cap-Vert'' (''The Mill and the Pestle, the Cape Verde Islands''), Harmattan, Paris, ACCT, 1980, p. 145

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