List of Cape Verdeans
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The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

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Artists

  • Djon Brito
  • Manuel Figueira
  • Tchalê Figueira
  • Lindsay Grace
    Lindsay Grace
    Lindsay Grace is a new media artist and professor who currently lives in Chicago, Illinois United States.- Career :He is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor in the School of Fine Arts and the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies at Miami University Miami University...

  • Mariana Ramos
  • Mayra Andrade
  • Mito Elias https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mito-Elias/216308035071236
  • Cesaria Evora
  • Bana
  • Ildo Lobo
  • Paulino Vieira
  • Bius
  • Bulimundo
  • Luis Morais
  • Manuel de Novas
  • Tubarões
  • Dudu Araujo
  • Cordas de Sol
  • Luis Morais
  • Gilyto Semedo http://www.gilyto.com
  • Lura
  • Princesito
  • Ferro Gaita
  • Simentera
  • Pantera
  • Tito Paris
  • Txeka
  • Gil Semedo

Beauty Pageant Winners

  • Wilza Fortes De Pina, Miss CEDEAO in 2002.
  • Tania Neves, Miss CEDEAO in 2005

Poets

  • Aguinaldo Fonseca
    Aguinaldo Fonseca
    -External links:*...

  • Sergio Frusoni
    Sergio Frusoni
    Sergio Frusoni was a poet and promoter of the Cape Verdean Creole language.-Biography:...

    , Italian Cape Verdean poet and promoter of the Cape Verdean Creole language.
  • Gabriel Mariano
    Gabriel Mariano
    José Gabriel Lopes da Silva, also known as Gabriel Mariano, was a Cape Verdean poet and an essayist.He studied at São Joaquim and graduated as director in Lisbon...

    , poet and an essayist
  • Ovídio Martins
    Ovídio Martins
    Ovídio de Sousa Martins was a famous Cape Verdean poet and journalist. He lived in exile in the Netherlands due to his pro-independence activities in his native land.-Books:*Caminhada, 1962 – Poemas...

    , poet and journalist
  • Arménio Vieira
    Arménio Vieira
    Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva is a Cape Verdean and a Portuguese journalist. He elemented an activity during the 1960s, collaborated in SELÓ, Boletim de Cabo Verde, Vértice review, Raízes, Ponto & Vírgula, Fragmentos, and others....

  • Dr. Azágua, poet, educator and Capeverdean Creole Advocate

Politicians

  • Amílcar Cabral
    Amílcar Cabral
    Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician. Also known by his nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence...

    , nationalist politician
  • António Mascarenhas Monteiro
    António Mascarenhas Monteiro
    António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro was the President of Cape Verde from March 22, 1991 to March 22, 2001.-Education:Monteiro went to university in Belgium and graduated with his law degree from the Catholic University of Leuven...

    , former President of Cape Verde
  • José Maria Neves
    José Maria Neves
    José Maria Pereira Neves on the island of Santiago , is the Prime Minister of Cape Verde.“José Maria Neves became interested in the politics and government of Cape Verde as a teen-ager.” “He was the leader of a nationalist youth organization during the country’s transition from Portuguese rule to...

    , Prime Minister of Cape Verde
  • Aristides Pereira
    Aristides Pereira
    Aristides Maria Pereira was the first President of Cape Verde, serving from 1975 to 1991.-Biography:Pereira was born on the island of Boa Vista. His first major government job was chief of telecommunications in Guinea-Bissau...

    , former President of Cape Verde
  • Pedro Pires
    Pedro Pires
    Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires was the President of Cape Verde from March 2001 to September 2011. Before becoming President, he was Prime Minister from 1975 to 1991....

    , former Prime Minister of Cape Verde; current President of Cape Verde
  • Carlos Veiga
    Carlos Veiga
    Carlos Alberto Wahnon de Carvalho Veiga is a Cape Verdean politician. He was Prime Minister of Cape Verde from April 4, 1991 to July 29, 2000, and he unsuccessfully ran for President as the candidate of the Movement for Democracy in 2001 and 2006....

    , former Prime Minister of Cape Verde
  • Honório Barreto
    Honório Barreto
    Honório Pereira Barreto was a governor of the Portuguese colony of Guinea . Born in Guinea of a Guinean mother and Cape Verdean father, he maintained Portuguese control of the area and even extended its influence...

     (1813–1859) was a governor of the Portuguese Guinea
    Portuguese Guinea
    Portuguese Guinea was the name for what is today Guinea-Bissau from 1446 to September 10, 1974.-History:...

    .
  • Corsino Fortes
    Corsino Fortes
    Corsino António Fortes is a Cape Verdean writer.He participated at the University of Lisbon in 1966.He became an ambassador in Lisbon.-Works:*Pão & Fonema *Árvore & Tombor *Pedras de Sol & Substância ...

    , ambassador and writer
  • Carlos Nunes Fernandes Reis, former Minister of Education, Diplomat

Producers

  • Mike Costa – Mike Costa is a writer/producer/director. He was a writer on the hit television series, Roseanne. He is currently producing a film titled: Proud to be Cape Verdean: A Look at Cape Verdeans in the Golden State.
  • Claire Andrade-Watkins
  • Jim Lopes – Jim Lopes is an entertainment attorney and writer/producer and former senior executive at MCA-Universal, CBS/Fox and Reader's Digest. He co-produced the award-winning documentary "Race to Execution" which was broadcast on PBS. He is currently producing a film about the Cape Verdean whaling families of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Music – Singers, Musicians, & Composers

  • Duane"DaRock" Ramos, rapper/music producer @duanedarock http://www.duanedarockmusic.com
  • Benzino artist Ceo HipHopWeekly Magazine
  • Rui Pina ('Rui'), Singer, songwriter, record producer, record executive, http://www.kolarecords.com
  • Maria Alice
  • Francelina Durão Amerida
    Fantcha
    Fantcha is a Cape Verdean singer who is popularly known in its traditional morna. She began her career with Cesária Évora...

     ('Fantcha')
  • Leonel Almeida
  • Rufino Almeida ('Bau'), singer
  • Manuel Lopes Andrade
    Tcheka
    Tcheka is a capeverdean singer, songwriter and guitarist, who is well-known for his work in modernising Batuque. -BiographyExternal links:* * *...

     ('Tcheka')
  • Mayra Andrade
    Mayra Andrade
    Mayra Andrade is a Cape Verdean singer who lives and records in Paris, France.Andrade was born in Cuba but grew up in Senegal, Angola, and Germany. However, she spent around two months of the year in the Cape Verdean island of Santiago...

  • Adriano Gonçalves
    Bana (singer)
    Bana is a balladeer from Cape Verde and an interpreter of the morna, the plaintive, melodic lament which is a staple musical style of the country....

     ('Bana'), singer and original member of Voz de Cabo Verde
  • Carlos Alberto Barbosa ('Kaká' Barbosa), composer
  • Orlando Monteiro Barreto (Orlando 'Pantera')
  • Maria de Barros
    Maria de Barros
    Maria de Barros is a singer most associated with Cape Verde, the land of her parents. That said she lived in Nouakchott and Rhode Island in her youth.She considers Cesária Évora to be her godmother and an inspiration...

    , Senegalese-born singer
  • Gardénia Benrós
  • Gilyto Semedo Singer, Dancer & Producer http://www.gilyto.com
  • Gabriela Mendes, Born in Mindelo on the Island of Sao Vicente
  • Humberto Bettencourt ('Humbertona'), guitarist
  • Biús ('Biús')
  • José Carlos Brito ('Voginha')
  • Amândio Cabral
  • António Carvalho ('Antoni Denti D' Oro')
  • José Casimiro
  • Teofilo Chantre
    Teófilo Chantre
    Teófilo Chantre is a Cape Verdean musician.He was born on the island of São Nicolau. At the age of thirteen, Chantre's family left Cape Verde and migrated to Paris, France...

  • João Cirilo
  • Malaquias Costa
  • Francisco Xavier da Cruz ('B. Leza'), composer of classic morna
  • Beto Dias, singer and songwriter
  • Codé di dona, Funaná musician
  • Abilio Duarte
    Abílio Duarte
    Abílio Augusto Monteiro Duarte was a Cape Verdean nationalist and early political leader in the independence era....

    , pre-independence composer of protest coladeira
  • Bela Duarte
    Bela Duarte
    Bela Duarte is an artist from Cape Verde, Born in the island of São Vicente and was studied decorative arts in Lisbon, Portugal. During the Portuguese Carnation Revolution in 1974, she returned to Cape Verde in Mindelo, together with Manuel Figueira and Luísa Queirós,she made the Cooperativa da...

  • José Duarte ('Djosinha'), singer and original member of Voz de Cabo Verde
  • Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...

    , Paris-based singer and global popularizer of morna and coladeira
  • Epifânia Évora ('Tututa')
  • Gracindo Évora ('Grace' Évora)
  • Emanuel Fernandes ('Zeca di nha Reinalda'), singer and member of Bulimundo
  • José Bernardo Fernandes ('Zézé di nha Reinalda'), singer and founder of Finaçon
    Finaçon
    Finaçon was a Cape Verdean musical band from the 80’s and 90’s....

  • Ana Firmino
    Ana Firmino
    Ana Firmino is a Cape Verdean singer. She was born in 1953 on the island of Sal, but it was not until she was in her late 20s that she dedicated herself to a career in music. She has performed for many years in Cape Verde and in Europe, appearing in film and on television, and releasing several...

  • Jacqueline Fortes
  • Fortinho ('Fortinho')
  • Francisco Vicente Gomes ('Frank Cavaquim'), composer
  • Maria Inácia Gomes Correia ('Nácia Gomi')
  • Arnaldo Gonçalves, pianist and founder of Centaurus
  • Gregorio Gonçalves, composer
  • Eddy Fortes
    Eddy Fort Moda Grog
    Eddy Fortes, better known by his stage name Eddy Fort Moda Grog, or Eddy is a Rotterdam-based Cape-Verdean rapper, who became popular in Cape Verde the 90s, thus becoming one of the pioneers of the rap and hip hop in Cape Verdean music...

     ('Eddy Fort Moda Grog'), rapper
  • Jorge Humberto, guitarist
  • Emmanuel Lima ('Manu' Lima), singer and composer
  • Euclides Lima ('Kiki' Lima)
  • Ildo Lobo
    Ildo Lobo
    Ildo Lobo was a famous Cape Verdean singer. His versatile and melodic voice, commanding stage presence and trademark beret hats made him one of the all time great performers of Cape Verde...

    , singer with Os Tubarões
  • Anselmo Lopes ('Séma Lopi')
  • António Lopes
    Antoninho Travadinha
    António Vicente Lopes, better known as Antoninho Travadinha was one of the major autodidactic musicians of Cape Verde originated from the island of Santo Antão....

     ('Antoninho Travadinha'), violinist
  • Lisa Nicole Lopes
    Lisa Lopes
    Lisa Nicole Lopes better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, singer, dancer, actress, television host, and songwriter...

     (Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes), member of hip-hop group TLC
    TLC (band)
    TLC is an American musical trio whose repertoire spanned R&B, hip-hop, soul, funk, and new jack swing. Originally consisting of singer Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, rapper-singer Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and singer Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas it found success in the 1990s while also enduring a series of spats...

  • Manuel de Jesus Lopes
    Manuel de Novas
    Manuel d' Novas was a Cape Verdean poet and composer.Born Manuel Jesus Lopes on the island of Santo Antão, he became one of the most important poets and composers of Cape Verde. His music is known all over the world, through performers like Cesária Évora. He lived in Mindelo on the island of São...

     ('Manuel de Novas'), humorous composer and modernizer of coladeira
  • Suzanna Lubrano
    Suzanna Lubrano
    Suzanna Lubrano is a Cape Verdean Zouk singer based in Rotterdam. On December 6, 2003 she was awarded the Kora All African Music Award for Best Female Artist of Africa of the year 2003.-Biography:...

    , zouk
    Zouk
    Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe & Martinique. Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the...

    singer
  • Mário Lúcio, founder of Simentera
  • Maria de Lurdes Lura
    Lura (musician)
    Lura, born Maria de Lurdes Assunção Pina is a Portuguese singer and musician, of Cape Verdean descent. Her compositions are based on traditional Cape-Verdean music as for example the Morna, Funaná and Batuque, and influenced by African and contemporary Western music.-Biography:Lura was born in...

     ('Lura')
  • Carlos Alberto Martins ('Katchàz', 'Katchás', 'Catchàz' or 'Catchass'), guitarist, founder of Bulimundo and revitalizer of the funaná
    Funana
    The Funaná is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. Funaná is an accordion-based music. It is perhaps the most upbeat form of Cape Verdean music...

    of Santiagu
    Santiago, Cape Verde
    Santiago , or Santiagu in Cape Verdean Creole, is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation’s population. At the time of Darwin's voyage it was called St. Jago....

  • Vasco Martins
    Vasco Martins
    Vasco Martins is a Cape Verdean musician and composer. Born in Queluz, Portugal, in 1956, he lives now in Calhau, Cape Verde.In the Cape Verdean musical panorama, Vasco Martins may be considered unique...

    , composer
  • Gerard Mendes
    Boy Gé Mendes
    Gerard Mendes, better known as Boy Gé Mendes is a Cape Verdean musician. He was born in Dakar, Senegal and was raised in the city's Cape Verdean diaspora community. As a child, he grew up in a household filled with the sounds of the native morna and coladeira...

     ('Boy Gê' or 'Boy Gé' Mendes), Senegalese-born singer, guitarist and founder of Paris-based Mendes e Mendes and O'asah
  • Frank Mimita
  • Mobafuco, a Capeverdean singer who released Salve na Criolu
  • Jorge Fernandes Monteiro
    Jotamont
    Jotamont or Jorge Fernandes Monteiro was a Cape Verdean musician and a composors, he was born on the boat headed for the United States of America along with his parents in search for a better living conditions and was one of the famous persons ever to be born on any boats and ships in the world...

     ('Jotamont'), pre-independence composer of morna
  • Luís Morais
    Luís Morais
    Luís Morais is a former Brazilian football player. He played for the Brazil national football team at the 1954 FIFA World Cup finals....

  • Eddy Moreno
  • Jorge Neto
  • Aristides Paris
    Tito Paris
    Tito Paris, is a singer and musician . He has a long career behind him and is among the most popular musicians from Cape Verde successfully blending the sound of Cape Verdean traditional mornas, coladeiras and funanas with the moderns sounds of Portugal and the rest of the world...

     ('Tito Paris')
  • Celina Pereira
  • Fernando Quejas
    Fernando Quejas
    Fernando Quejas was a singer and a songwriter of Cape Verde.-Biography:Quejas left his home in Cape Verde for Portugal in 1947. In the 1950s, he published under the Portuguese Label "Alvorado" with 22 albums. In the 1960s and the 1970s did numerous appearances throughout the world...

    , singer and songwriter
  • Danny Ramalho (Jokachild), hip-hop artist
  • Daniel Rendall
  • Albertina Rodrigues ('Titina'), singer
  • Arlinda Santos
  • Gil Semedo
    Gil Semedo
    Gil Semedo Moreira is a recording artist and performer.-Discography:********************-External links:* http://www.gilsemedo.com [Official website]* http://www.facebook.com/gilsemedofan [Facebook Page]*...

    , singer
  • Chico Serra ('Chico' Serra)
  • Adalberto Silva ('Betú'), composer
  • Daniel Silva ('Dany' Silva)
  • Marinho Silva
  • Onésimo Silva
  • Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva
    Horace Silver
    Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....

     ('Horace Silver'), hard bop
    Hard bop
    Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano...

     jazz pianist of Capeverdean extraction
  • Armando Zeferino Soares
    Armando Zeferino Soares
    Armando Zeferino Soares, was a Capeverdean composer, author of the famous song Sodade. He was born in Praia Branca in the island of São Nicolau and worked there as a salesman....

    , composer of the famous morna, Sodade
  • Eugénio Tavares
    Eugénio Tavares
    Eugénio de Paula Tavares was a Cape Verdean poet. He is known through his famous poems , written in the Crioulo of Brava. His name is honored in the name of the town square in Vila Nova Sintra along with a statue.-Mornas:***...

    , greatest composer of morna
  • Fulgêncio Tavares ('Ano Nobo'), composer
  • Blick Tchutchi ('Blick Tchutchi')
  • Armãndo Tito, guitarist
  • Gregório Vaz ('Kodé di Dona' or 'Codé di Dona'), Santiagu
    Santiago, Cape Verde
    Santiago , or Santiagu in Cape Verdean Creole, is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation’s population. At the time of Darwin's voyage it was called St. Jago....

    -based accordianist, standard-bearer for traditional funaná
    Funana
    The Funaná is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. Funaná is an accordion-based music. It is perhaps the most upbeat form of Cape Verdean music...

    , and composer of "Fomi 47" about famine
  • Nancy Vieira, Guiné Bissau-born singer of morna and coladeira
  • Paulino Vieira, guitarist and arranger of morna
  • Sara Tavares
    Sara Tavares
    Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares is a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist. She was born and brought up in Lisbon, Portugal, where she still lives. Second-generation Portuguese of Cape Verdean descent, she composes African, Portuguese and North American influenced world music. She...

    , Portuguese-born singer of Capeverdian descent
  • Marcelo Rosa, (Patalino) Guitarist,Singer,Composer,Producer,Songwriter,Arranger.

NBA
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

 

  • Dana Barros
    Dana Barros
    Dana Bruce Barros is a retired American professional basketball player from the NBA. Before the NBA he played at Boston College, finishing as one of the school's all-time leading scorers....

    , former NBA basketball player with the Boston Celtics
  • Glen "Big Baby" Davis
    Glen Davis (basketball)
    Ronald Glen Davis , commonly known as Glen Davis and by his nickname Big Baby, is an American basketball player who last played for the NBA's Boston Celtics...

  • Ryan Gomes
    Ryan Gomes
    Ryan Anthony Gomes is an American professional basketball forward with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association....

  • Dan "Jewy" Steinberg
  • Carl "La Rosa Roja" Nemes

Europe

  • João Gomes
    João Gomes
    João Gomes , most commonly known as Betinho, is a Portuguese basketball player.-Career:Gomes played for FC Barreirense in Portugal, the club where he developed his basketball skills, and was noticed by American and European scouts. His performance with led to an invitation to play in the Reebok...

  • Nelson Delgado, luxemburgish basketball national team players of cape verdean descent
  • Jairo Delgado, luxemburgish basketball national team players of cape verdean descent

Football

  • Bijou Davidson
    Bijou Davidson
    Davidson Renato da Cruz Coronel , aka Bijou, is a Cape Verdean footballer who plays for A.D. Fafe in the Portuguese third division, as a central midfielder.-Football career:...

  • Gerson
  • Kadú
  • Pedro Pelé
    Pedro Pelé
    Pedro Miguel Cardoso Monteiro , aka Pelé, is a Portuguese-born Cape Verdean footballer who plays as a central defender.-Club career:...

  • Tunis
  • Arlindo Gomes Semedo
    Arlindo Gomes Semedo
    Arlindo Gomes Semedo , aka Cafú, is a Portuguese-born Cape Verdean footballer who plays for AEL Limassol in Cyprus.Internationally, the forward represented Cape Verde.-Football career:...

  • José Veiga
    José Veiga (born 1976)
    José Manuel Monteiro da Veiga is a Cape Verdean footballer who plays for Macclesfield Town as a goalkeeper.Born in Portugal, he played for the Cape Verde national team, and played professionally in the second divisions of Portugal and Spain, also appearing for several teams in the lower leagues of...

  • Nélson Veiga
    Nélson Veiga
    Nélson César Tavares Rodrigues da Veiga is a Portuguese-born Cape Verdean footballer who plays for KAC Marrakech in Morocco. He can operate as either a right or central defender.-Club career:...

  • Devlin Anes "The Beast"read article for more info
  • Henrik Larsson
    Henrik Larsson
    Henrik Edward Larsson MBE is a retired Swedish footballer and current manager of Landskrona BoIS.Larsson began his career with Högaborgs BK. He moved to Helsingborg, where he was one of the key players when they qualified to Allsvenskan 1993. Larsson then moved to Feyenoord for four years before...

    , half Cape Verdean
  • Jerry Adriano Pires
  • Erikson Teixeira
  • Patrick Vieira
    Patrick Vieira
    Patrick Vieira is a retired French footballer of Senegalese descent who is the Football Development Executive at Manchester City....

    , from the Cape Verdean community in Dakar, Senegal
  • Nani
    Nani
    -People:*Nani, a Portuguese footballer who plays for Manchester United*Gianluca Nani, former technical director at West Ham United*Nanabhoy Palkhivala, nicknamed Nani, an Indian jurist and economist*Nani Roma, a Spanish rally racing driver...

  • Joaquim M. Andrade, "Dr. Azágua", first FIFA Professional Soccer Coach, USSF-A, NSCAA-National.
  • Manuel Fernandes
    Manuel Fernandes
    Manuel Fernandes may refer to:*Manuel Fernandes , rower who represented Portugal at the 1996 Summer Olympics*Manuel Fernandes , former Portuguese football forward during the late 70s and 80s, later a manager...

    , portuguese national player of cape verdean descent
  • Gelson Fernandes
    Gelson Fernandes
    Gelson Tavares Fernandes is a Swiss footballer, who currently plays as a midfielder for Leicester City on loan from AS Saint Etienne...

    , swiss national player of cape verdean descent
  • Dady, cape verdean national team player

Martial Arts

  • Fredson Gomes, Tae Kwon Do Olympian
  • Emanuel Bettencourt
  • Joaquim M. Andrade Wah Lum Kung Fu, Master

Boxing

  • Robert Daluz, featherweight boxer
  • Vinny "the Kid" Debarros, featherweight boxer
  • Demetrius "The Best" Andrade
    Demetrius Andrade
    Demetrius "Boo Boo" Andrade is a professional boxer from the United States best known for winning the 2007 world championships as an amateur. He made his professional debut October 23, 2008. Demetrius represented the United States in the 2008 Olympics...

  • "Sucra" Ray Oliveira

Fernando Fernandes, welterweight boxer

Other Sports

  • Melissa Maria Andrade of Scituate, MA, USA-Champion Team Gymnastics, and two-time finalist at Disney, FL
  • Cynthia Barboza
    Cynthia Barboza
    Cynthia Jane Barboza is an American volleyball player. She is an outside hitter who played at Stanford University for four years.-High school:...

  • Paul Wigertz - Poker player.

Writers

  • Amílcar Cabral
    Amílcar Cabral
    Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician. Also known by his nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence...

     (1921–1973)
  • Baltasar Lopes da Silva
    Baltasar Lopes da Silva
    Baltasar Lopes da Silva was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of Claridade. In 1947 he published Chiquinho, considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel...

     (1907–1989)
  • Corsino Fortes
    Corsino Fortes
    Corsino António Fortes is a Cape Verdean writer.He participated at the University of Lisbon in 1966.He became an ambassador in Lisbon.-Works:*Pão & Fonema *Árvore & Tombor *Pedras de Sol & Substância ...

  • Don Xavier
  • Eugénio Tavares
    Eugénio Tavares
    Eugénio de Paula Tavares was a Cape Verdean poet. He is known through his famous poems , written in the Crioulo of Brava. His name is honored in the name of the town square in Vila Nova Sintra along with a statue.-Mornas:***...

     (1867–1930)
  • Germano Almeida
    Germano Almeida
    Germano Almeida is a Cape Verde author and lawyer. Born on the Cape island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law in Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo. His novels have been translated into several languages...

     (1945- )
  • Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
    Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
    Henrique Teixeira de Sousa was a doctor and author from Cape Verde.-Biography:...

  • Ivone Ramos
    Ivone Ramos
    ' is a Cape Verdean writer who lives in Mindelo .Her father was...

    : (1926- )
  • João Cleófas Martins
    João Cleófas Martins
    João Cleofas Martins was a Capeverdean photographer and author. His father came from the island of Brava and he lived most of his live in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente....

     (1901–1970)
  • Jorge Barbosa
    Jorge Barbosa
    Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa was a Cape Verdean poet and writer. He collaborated in various reviews and Portuguese and Cape Verdean journals. The publication of his poetry anthology Arquipélago in 1935 marked the beginning of Capeverdean poetry...

  • Manuel Lopes
    Manuel Lopes
    Manuel António de Sousa Lopes was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist and a founder of modern Cape Verdean literature. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a creator of the paper named Claridade...

     (1907–2005)
  • Manuel de Novas
    Manuel de Novas
    Manuel d' Novas was a Cape Verdean poet and composer.Born Manuel Jesus Lopes on the island of Santo Antão, he became one of the most important poets and composers of Cape Verde. His music is known all over the world, through performers like Cesária Évora. He lived in Mindelo on the island of São...

     (1938- )
  • Orlanda Amarilis
    Orlanda Amarílis
    Orlanda Amarílis Lopes Rodrigues Fernandes Ferreira, known as Orlanda Amarílis , is a Cape Verdean writer...

     (1924 – )
  • PJ Coble (1960- )American of Cape Verdian descent
  • Yolanda Morazzo
    Yolanda Morazzo
    Yolanda Morazzo is a writer of poetry and short fiction in the Portuguese language. Although she lived for many years in Portugal, she is associated with the Claridade movement of Cape Verdean writers...

     (1928- )
  • Sergio Frusoni
    Sergio Frusoni
    Sergio Frusoni was a poet and promoter of the Cape Verdean Creole language.-Biography:...

     (1901–1975)
  • Viriato de Barros
    Viriato de Barros
    Viriato de Barros is a Cape Verdean writer. He is an author of several works:-External links:*http://www.multiculturas.com/viriato_barros.htm...

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