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Cape Verde: On the possibility of adopting the Euro
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 08, 2008
p> Virgílio Brandão [pt] ponders on the pros and cons of the adoption of the Euro as a currency in Cape Verde. “The country must have a clear picture of its response to problems that would arise from this, and must gain more benefits than difficulties. The population will... more
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Cape Verde: Internet should be free
Global Voices Online - Monday, May 05, 2008
p> João Branco [pt] quotes an Universal McCanns global research into the impact of social media that advocates that Internet should be free and reflects the situation in Cape Verde: “This is why I believe that in Cape Verde we still have a long way to go to get... more
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Cape Verde: Ave Mayra
Global Voices Online - Friday, April 11, 2008
p> Virgílio Brandão [pt] is one of the many bloggers celebrating today: Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade, at just 23, won the best newcomer in the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards. “Mayra Andrade, besides excellent artist, has showed some unusual wit and clarification for someone of her age... more
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Cape Verde: History of amateur radio service
Global Voices Online - Monday, April 07, 2008
p> Jorge Sousa Brito [pt] remembers the infancy of the amateur radio service in Cape Verde, an activity which he grew up with as his father was the first person to take up the hobby in the country. ... more
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Cape Verde: Gilberto Freyre at my greatgranny's
Global Voices Online - Sunday, April 06, 2008
p> Jorge Sousa Brito [pt] posts photos and writes about an incredible and wonderful story: the day that the Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist Gilberto Freyre dropped at this great grandmother's house when he visited Cape Verde in 1951. ... more
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Cape Verde President to Mediate in Poll Deadlock
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ape Verdian President Pedro Pires flew into Guinea-Bissau on Thursday to try to end a dispute surrounding last month's presidential elections, for which definitive results have still not been ... more
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Portugal: Three Decades After Last Colonial Empire Came to an End
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he 30th anniversary of Angola's independence, commemorated this month, also marked the same period of time since nearly six centuries of European colonialism in Africa came to an ... more
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Cape Verde: On the lack of a theatre in Praia
Global Voices Online - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
p> João Branco [pt] on the lack of a theatre in the Cape Verde capital: “Perhaps it is here that lies the starting point for us to question the fact that in a city so full of life, of poetry, of contrasts, colors, smells, feelings of impossibilities, ironies, absurd,... more
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Cape Verde: Woman's day
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 27, 2008
p> Eurídice Monteiro [pt] takes the opportunity of the Cape Verde Woman's Day today to reflect on gender equality in the country. “The point is that we try to understand the current situation and demand that, regardless of gender, people are treated with respect and have the necessary means... more
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How the 'Barefoot Diva' is Captivating the World
allAfrica.com - Monday, March 24, 2008
F YOU KNOW WHERE CAPE VERde is, chances are that it is because you have come across Cesaria Evora, the "barefoot diva" who has made the music of her native country, once ruled by the Portuguese, popular around the ... more
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Cape Verde: Journalist is jailed
Global Voices Online - Saturday, February 23, 2008
p>A journalist has been jailed this week for taking photographs in Cape Verde, Nós Media [pt] reports. The blogger has learned the piece of news trough a newspaper's website. “Despite the ambiguity of the piece of news, that don't let us really understand the circumstances in which the... more
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Country Honours Mwanawasa, Pires
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, February 20, 2008
resident Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has conferred honourary national insignias on his Zambian and Cape Verdian counterparts, who left Banjul yesterday after attending the celebrations, marking the country's 43rd years of ... more
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Cape Verde: The future of politics
Global Voices Online - Friday, January 04, 2008
p> Djoyamado [pt] tries to guess the future of politics on Cape Verde, among them: “Our primary and secondary schools' children and teenagers will not know or will have great difficulty in getting the Prime Minister's name”. See in the previous post his less pessimistic predictions for... more
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Good Student, Reluctant 'Example'
allAfrica.com - Thursday, January 03, 2008
ape Verde Foreign Minister Víctor Barbosa Borges dismisses out of hand the label placed by various international institutions on this small Atlantic archipelago, which are calling it an example for the rest of ... more
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Lusosphere: Wishes and hopes for 2008
Global Voices Online - Monday, December 31, 2007
p>The new year is inevitably soon arriving and the Lusosphere is booming with posts about traditions, resolutions, wishes, and reflections. Here is a short roundup of Portuguese speaking blogs from Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Mozambique and Portugal - although countries far apart, they share the language and hopes for... more
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Cape Verde: Enough of mugging - III
Global Voices Online - Friday, December 14, 2007
p>Another update on the problem of muggings in Cape Verde (talked about here and here ), Pedrabika [pt] has hosted a live blog debate on the situation: “PARTICIPATION, this seem to be the key word - we can not just sit down and complain to... more
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Cape Verde: Enough of mugging - II
Global Voices Online - Thursday, December 13, 2007
p>Updating us on the problem of muggings in Cape Verde , Pedrabika [pt] compiles a list of blogs that have been discussing the issue and invites readers to tell their stories on the comments section: “Let's get all testimonies together and compose a big letter to be... more
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Cape Verde: Enough of mugging
Global Voices Online - Thursday, December 06, 2007
p> Pedrabika [pt] discusses the high rate of mugging in Cape Verde and invites everyone to react, starting with attending to a rally this Friday, December 14: “We all talk but nobody does anything to get the situation changed. This appeal may be the beginning of a process of... more
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Cape Verde: We are Africans
Global Voices Online - Thursday, November 22, 2007
p> Obikuelu Pedra [pt] is not happy to hear on the Radio that Cape Verde is not part of Africa: “What a crazy idea to think that Cape Verde's culture is different from the one of Guinea Bissau and therefore we are not part of Africa. Come on!”
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Cape Verdean Ambassador Bids Farewell to President Dos Santos
allAfrica.com - Thursday, November 01, 2007
Outgoing Cape Verdean ambassador bids farewell to Angolan president, José Eduardo dos ... more
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