Henrique Teixeira de Sousa (September 19, 1919 in São Lourenço on the island of Fogo – March 3, 2006) was a doctor and author from Cape Verde.

Biography

Teixeira de Sousa graduated in 1945 in Lisbon with a degree in

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, having attended in the following year the Institute of Tropical Medicine in

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. He later specialized in nutrition and initially went to

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to work as a doctor there. Teixeira de Sousa settled on his natal island of Fogo the following year, where he had an important role in maintaining minimal structures of public health. Later on, he worked on the island of São Vicente, until he emigrated shortly before the independence of the archipelago from Portugal, and moved to Oeiras,

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, where he lived until his death in 2006. Teixeira de Sousa wrote fiction, including novels, and was a pupil of

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and Jorge Barbosa. In one of his article, it analysed 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''. Teixeira de Sousa was also the mayor of

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, on the island of São Vicente, in the 1960s.

Legacy

A high school (lyceum) in the city of São Filipe on his native island is named after him. 200escudos-2014-300px-back

Since 2014, he is featured on a Capeverdean $200 escudo note. His face is featured on two sides. It features most of his native island's map, a grape is on the top of the map. On the back is Chã das Caldeiras and

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, the two features of his native island.

Works

*''Homens de hoje'' (1944/45) - featured in the Certeza review *"Sobrados, lojas e funcos", appeared in the fifth issue of '' Claridade'' magazine, published in 1958 *''Contra Mar e Vento'' 'Over Sea and Wind''(1972) - book of tales *'' Ilhéu de Contenda'' 'The Island of Content'(1978) - (first of a trilogy) adapted into a drama film '' The Island of Contenda'' in 1996 *''Capitão de Mar e Terra '' 'Captain of Sea and Land''(1984) *''Xaguate'' (1987) - second of a trilogy *''Djunga'' (1990) *''Na Ribeira de Deus'' (1992) - third of a trilogy *''Entre duas Bandeiras '' 'Between Two Flags''(1994) *''Ó Mar de Túrbidas Vagas'' (2005)

References

External links

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Claridiade at Cabo IndexHenrique Teixeira de Sousa at Livro di Tera

Henrique Teixeira de Sousa at Memória África
at the University of Algarve *https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225554/http://www.fflch.usp.br/dlcv/posgraduacao/ecl/pdf/via04/via04_19.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Teixeira de Sousa Henrique 1919 births 2006 deaths Cape Verdean male writers Cape Verdean physicians Medical writers People from Fogo, Cape Verde Presidents of municipalities in Cape Verde Cape Verdean expatriates in Portugal 20th-century physicians