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  • NovelO escravoJosé Evaristo de Almeida · 1856not translated into EnglishPortugal is then abolishing slavery by stages in its colonies, and final abolition will not come until 1869; the archipelago lives from trade and plantations.Literature
  • TaleFolk-Lore from the Cape Verde IslandsElsie Clews Parsons · 1923Famines have emptied the islands several times, and emigration to New England began in the nineteenth century with the American whalers.Literature
  • PoetryMornas - cantigas crioulasEugénio Tavares · 1932not translated into EnglishCreole is then forbidden at school and regarded by the administration as a patois; the elites of the archipelago write in Portuguese.Literature
  • PoetryArquipélagoJorge Barbosa · 1935not translated into EnglishAn archipelago of ten islands five hundred kilometres from the mainland, without rivers or industry, where the sea serves less to leave than to remind one that one does not leave.Literature
  • NovelChiquinhoBaltasar Lopes da Silva · 1947Drought returns one year in three in an archipelago without a river, and half of the inhabitants live elsewhere; to leave or to stay is the question the country has always asked itself.Literature
  • NovelChuva BrabaManuel Lopes · 1956not translated into EnglishOn these islands, the year is decided by a few days of rain, and emigration to Brazil or America is the only recourse when it fails.Literature
  • NovelHora di baiManuel Ferreira · 1962not translated into EnglishThe great droughts of the forties killed tens of thousands of people in the archipelago, and contract labour for São Tomé was the only work the administration offered.Literature
  • PoetryCaminhadaOvídio Martins · 1962not translated into EnglishThe generation that came after Claridade reproaches its elders for having made emigration a poetic destiny, when it sees in it a colonial policy.Literature
  • PoetryPão & FonemaCorsino Fortes · 1974The archipelago is a year away from independence, and the Portuguese revolution has just opened the way for that of all the colonies.Literature
  • Short storiesCais-do-Sodré té SalamansaOrlanda Amarílis · 1974not translated into EnglishCape Verdean emigration to Portugal is then as much a matter for women as for men, and the stories of the archipelago had never been written from that side.Literature
  • PoetryCântico de FerroYolanda Morazzo · 1976not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a Cape Verdean woman poet, committed poems against colonialism written in Angola.Literature
  • NovelIlhéu de ContendaHenrique Teixeira de Sousa · 1978not translated into EnglishThe first part of a Fogo trilogy, on the decline of the island's great families, adapted for the cinema by Leão Lopes.Literature
  • PoetryPoemasArménio Vieira · 1981not translated into EnglishThe poetry of the archipelago had set itself the task of speaking of the islands, drought and departure; a writing that speaks of reading stands out sharply.Literature
  • CinemaOs flagelados do vento lesteAntónio Faria · 1987The wind from the Sahara scorches the crops of the archipelago several years in each decade, and the famines of the twentieth century killed tens of thousands of people there, the last in 1948.Cinema
  • NovelThe Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva AraújoO Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva AraújoGermano de Almeida · 1989The reading of a will several hundred pages long undoes, page after page, the reputation of a tradesman whom a whole town thought it knew.Literature
  • CinemaIlhéu de ContendaLeão Lopes · 1995The society of the colonial archipelago rests on a hierarchy of land and colour that trade is in the process of undoing, some ten years before independence.Cinema
  • CinemaDown to EarthCasa de LavaPedro Costa · 1995The men of the archipelago leave to work on building sites in Lisbon, and those whom an accident renders useless are sent back to the island, where no one is waiting for them any more.Cinema
  • CinemaThe Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva AraújoO testamento do Senhor NapumocenoFrancisco Manso · 1997Mindelo then lives from the port, coal and the import trade, and a fortune is built there in a single generation without anyone knowing where it comes from.Cinema