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Badiu People
The Badiu (Cape Verdean Creole: ''Bádiu'') are the largest ethnic group of Cape Verde, with their origins on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, Santiago. They are descendants of enslaved West Africans who were brought to the island by the Portuguese during the transatlantic slave trade. The Badiu are particularly known for their preservation of strong African cultural and social traditions, which have profoundly shaped Cape Verdean national identity. Identity and Etymology The term ''Badiu'' is widely believed to originate from the Portuguese language, Portuguese word ''vadio'' ("vagrant," "wanderer"). Initially, it was used as a pejorative term by colonial authorities to describe enslaved Africans who escaped the plantations and formed independent communities in the inaccessible mountains of Santiago's interior. Over centuries, the people of Santiago reappropriated the term. It evolved from a slur into a powerful marker of cultural identity, symbolizing resistance, resilien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabral 2
Cabral may refer to: Places *Amílcar Cabral International Airport, international airport of Cape Verde *Cabral, Dominican Republic, a town in the Dominican Republic *Cabrales, municipality in Spain *Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazilian business school *Robert J. Cabral Station, United States train station *Sargento Cabral Department, in Chaco Province in Argentina *Vila Olímpica Elzir Cabral, multi-use stadium in Brazil People *Cabral (surname) *Cabral (footballer) (born 1988), Cape Verdean footballer *Amílcar Cabral, a Marxist revolutionary *Pedro Álvares Cabral, Portuguese explorer, the European discoverer of Brazil *Cabral Ibacka, Romanian-Congolese TV personality Other *African Youth Amílcar Cabral, youth wing of PAIGC political party in Guinea-Bissau *Amílcar Cabral Cup, football tournament for Western African nations *Cabral (horse), a Paralympics dressage horse *Cabrales cheese, Spanish cheese *Fenyramidol, trade name ''Cabral'', a muscle relaxant See also *Cabrei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senegambia
The Senegambia (other names: Senegambia region or Senegambian zone,Barry, Boubacar, ''Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade'', (Editors: David Anderson, Carolyn Brown; trans. Ayi Kwei Armah; contributors: David Anderson, American Council of Learned Societies, Carolyn Brown, University of Michigan. Digital Library Production Service, Christopher Clapham, Michael Gomez, Patrick Manning, David Robinson, Leonardo A. Villalon), Cambridge University Press (1998) p. 5,(Retrieved 15 March 2019) Senegàmbi in Wolof language, Wolof and Pulaar, Senegambi in Serer) is, in the narrow sense, a historical name for a geographical region in West Africa, named after the Senegal River in the north and the Gambia River in the south. However, there are also text sources which state that Senegambia is understood in a broader sense and equated with the term the Western region. This refers to the coastal areas between Senegal and Sierra Leone, where the inland border in the east was not further def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeca Di Nha Reinalda
Zeca may refer to: * José Afonso (1929–1987), Portuguese folk and political musician also known mononymously as Zeca * Zeca (footballer, born 1946), full name Jose Luiz Ferreira Rodrigues, Brazilian football manager known mononymously as Zeca * Zeca (footballer, born 1975), full name José António Gonçalves da Silva, Portuguese footballer known mononymously as Zeca * Zeca (footballer, born 1988), full name José Carlos Gonçalves Rodrigues, Portuguese-Greek footballer known mononymously as Zeca * Zeca (footballer, born 1990), David da Silva Lima, Brazilian football left-back * Zeca (footballer, born 1994), full name José Carlos Cracco Neto, Brazilian footballer known mononymously as Zeca * Zeca (footballer, born 1997), full name José Joaquim de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer known mononymously as Zeca * Zeca Amaral (born 1967), Angolan football manager * Zeca Baleiro (born 1966), Brazilian pop musician * Zeca Marques (born 1961), Portuguese South African footballer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino D'Santiago
Claudino Jesus Borges Pereira, better known by his stage name Dino D'Santiago (born 13 December 1982), is a Portuguese activist, composer, and musician of Cape Verdean descent. First appearing in Operação Triunfo, he has released several albums, both with groups such as Expensive Soul and his project Nu Soul Family, as well as solo projects. He has won various awards from organizations such as Cabo Verde Music Awards and the MTV Europe Music Awards. He has also been featured on magazines such as GQ and the ''Rolling Stone''. Early life D’Santiago was born on 13 December 1982 in the freguesia of Quarteira, in the Algarve. The son of immigrants from the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, Santiago in Cape Verde, he was raised in Bairro dos Pescadores, an older Slum, bairro de lata in Quarteira, where his parents had moved to after arriving in Portugal. The neighborhood, which after the Carnation Revolution became the residence of various immigrants who came from the former Portugue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristides Pereira
Aristides Maria Pereira (; 17 November 1923 – 22 September 2011) was a Cape Verdean politician. He was the first President of Cape Verde, serving from 1975 to 1991. Biography Pereira was born in Fundo das Figueiras, on the island of Boa Vista. His first job was chief of telecommunications in Guinea-Bissau. From the late 1940s until Cape Verde's independence, Pereira was heavily involved in the anti-colonial movement, organizing strikes and rising through the hierarchy of his party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (''Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde'', known as PAIGC). In clandestine activity he often used the pseudonym Alfredo Bangura. Although Pereira initially promised to lead a democratic and socialist nation upon becoming president, he compounded the country's chronic poverty by crushing dissent following the overthrow of Luís Cabral, who was President of Guinea-Bissau and Pereira's ally in the drive to unite the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestor Veneration
The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased. In some cultures, it is related to beliefs that the dead have a continued existence, and may possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living. Some groups venerate their direct, familial ancestors. Certain religious groups, in particular the Eastern Orthodox Churches, Anglican Church, and Catholic Church venerate saints as intercessors with God; the latter also believes in prayer for departed souls in Purgatory. Other religious groups, however, consider veneration of the dead to be idolatry and a sin. In European, Asian, Oceanian, African and Afro-diasporic cultures (which includes but should be distinguished from multiple cultures and Indigenous populations in the Americas who were never influenced by the African Diaspora), the goal of ancestor veneration is to ensure the ancestors' continued well-being and positive disposition towards the living, and sometim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional African Religions
The beliefs and practices of Demographics of Africa, African people are highly diverse, and include various ethnic religions.Encyclopedia of African Religion (Sage, 2009) Molefi Kete Asante Generally, these traditions are oral tradition, oral rather than Religious text, scriptural and are passed down from one generation to another through narratives, Music of Africa, songs, and : Festivals in Africa by country , festivals. They include beliefs in Spirit (animating force), spirits and higher and lower gods, sometimes including a King of the gods, supreme being, as well as the veneration of the dead, use of Magic (supernatural), magic, and traditional African medicine. Most religions can be described as Animism, animistic with various polytheistic and pantheistic aspects. The role of humanity is generally seen as one of harmonizing nature with the supernatural. Spread Adherents of traditional religions in Africa are distributed among 43 countries and are estimated to number over 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funaná
The ''funaná'' is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. ''Funaná'' is an accordion-based music. The rhythm is usually provided by the '' ferrinho'' much like the use of washboards in zydeco, the saw in Caribbean ripsaw music, the scraper in Sub-Saharan African music and the güiro in Latin and Pre-Columbian music. Characteristics As a music genre, the ''funaná'' is characterized by having a variable tempo, from ''vivace'' to ''andante'', and a 2-beat rhythm. The ''funaná'' is intimately associated to the accordion, more precisely to the diatonic accordion, commonly known as ''gaita'' in Cape Verde. This influences a lot of musical aspects that characterize the ''funaná'', such as the fact that, in its most traditional form, the funaná uses only diatonic scales, Gonçalves, C. F., '' Kab Verd Band'' — 2006 and not chromatic ones. The structure of a ''funaná'' composition is not very different from the structure of other musical genres in Cape Verde, i.e., basi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batuque (music)
The batuque is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. As a music genre As a music genre, the ''batuque'' is characterized by having an ''andante'' tempo, a 6/8 or 3/4 measure and traditionally it is just melodic, i.e., it is just sung, it has no polyphonic accompaniment. When compared with the other musical genres from Cape Verde, the ''batuque'' has a call and response structure, and it is the only genre that is polyrhythmic. In fact, analyzing the rhythm, one finds out that it is a 3-beat rhythm over a 2-beat rhythm. In its traditional form, the ''batuque'' is organized as if it were an orchestral ''crescendo''. It possesses two movements (if we may call them so): In older times the music began with an introduction on the '' cimboa'' that provided the base musical line. Nowadays the usage of that instrument is extinct. The first movement is called, in Creole, ''galion'' . In this movement one of the performers (called ''batukaderas'' ) executes a polyrhythmic hit, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mande Languages
The Mande languages are a family of languages spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples. They include Maninka (Malinke), Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are around 60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people, chiefly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) and also in southern Mauritania, northern Ghana, northwestern Nigeria and northern Benin. The Mande languages show a few lexical similarities with the Atlantic–Congo language family, so together they have been proposed as parts of a larger Niger–Congo language family since the 1950s. However, the Mande languages lack the noun-class morphology that is the primary identifying feature of the Atlantic–Congo languages. Accordingly, linguists increasingly treat Mande and Atlantic–Congo as independent language families. History Various opinions exis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
