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OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Cabo Verde
CAPITAL CITY: Praia
POPULATION: 538,000 (Source: COUNTRYaah)
AREA: 4,033 km²
OFFICIAL/OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Portuguese, kriolu kabuverdianu (Creole Portuguese)
RELIGION: Catholics 96%, Protestants 2%, others 2%
CURRENCY: escudo
CURRENCY CODE: CVE
ENGLISH NAME: Cape Verde
INDEPENDENCE: 1975
POPULATION COMPOSITION: Creole (mulattoes) 71%, black 28%, white 1%
GDP PER CAPITA INH.: $ 4020 (2015)
LIFE EXPECTANCY: men 69 years, women 74 years (2014)
LIVING CONDITIONS INDEX, HDI: 0636
LIVING CONDITIONS INDEX, POSITION: 123
INTERNET DOMAIN NAME: .cv
Cape Verde, archipelago and republic of the Atlantic off West Africa; former
Portuguese colony and since 1975 independent nation. The islands can be seen as
an extension of the Sahara into the Atlantic; they are very dry, densely
populated, and the economy in particular has been heavily dependent on foreign
aid in the past.
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Cape Verde - Constitution
Cape Verde - Constitution, The Republic of Cape Verde is, according to the
1992 Constitution, a multi-party state; however, parties with religious or
geographical boundaries are not allowed. The head of state is the president who
is elected by direct election for five years. The legislative power lies with
the 79 members of the National Assembly, who are elected by ordinary, direct
elections for five years. The executive rests with the prime minister, who is
nominated by the largest party of parliament and appointed by the
president. Following a constitutional referendum in 1995, the president's powers
were expanded; at the same time, the autonomy of local bodies was
strengthened. In 1999, the post was created as a national ombudsman (Provedor de
Justica).
Cape Verde - literature
Cape Verde - literature, Among the former Portuguese colonies, Cape Verde
also appeared in the field of literature with a special status. There was a
relatively high literacy rate - also in relation to the mother country - and the
local intelligentsia there and in Angola constituted the spearhead of an African
literature in Portuguese. Characteristic of Cape Verde has also been an
extensive use of the local Creole language as a literary medium.
An early forerunner was José Evaristo d'Almeida, whose novel O escravo (1856,
The Slave) is considered the first Cape Verde, but first around it, for the
formation of a Cape Verde identity so crucial journal Claridade (Clarity,
1930-60), a greater circle of writers; among these were the founders Jorge
Barbosa (1902-71), Baltasar Lopes (1907-90) and Manuel Lopes (1907-2005) who,
respectively. the poetry collection Arquipélago (1935, Other) and the
novels Chiquinho (1947) and Chuva Braba (1947, Wild Rain)
created pioneering works in Cape Verde literature.
In reaction to the tendency of escapist Eurocentrism of the Claridade flow,
in the 1960's a more African and politically oriented direction emerged, Nova
Largada (New Beginning) with Onésimo Silveira (b. 1935) as an ideologist. This
trend gained further strength with independence in 1975, but the recent Cape
Verde literature also contains aesthetically experimental works such as Pão
& Fonema (1974, Bread & Fonem) by the poet Corsino Fortes
(1933-2015). Around the journal Ponto & Vírgula (Semicolon, 1983-87), a
postmodern reorientation set in, with Germano Almeida (b. 1945) as the central
figure and his subtly ironic novel O meu poeta (1990, My poet) as the
representative work.
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