Two Face Entertainment L.L.C. would like to invite any young lady interested in running for the Miss Cape Verde USA PAGEANT to take place in April/1997 to contact any of the following people to schedule an audition:

See incredible images of Cabo Verde by renowned photographer Ron Barboza. Also,

• Through Dr. Stephen Cabral's photography, experience how the Portuguese spirit is captured in the celebrations at patron saint festivals.
• Experience Richard "Little Bear's" dream [aintings where he captures the essence of Native American Culture and his Cherokee roots.
• View West African culture through the murals and sketches of Munir Deishinni.
• Through artist's assembled by Joanne Monahan, view depictions of the architectural structures of Rhode Island.

New Book: The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa

The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa. Patrick Chabal, Ed. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996. With Moema Parente Augel, David Brookshaw, Ana Mafalda Leite, Caroline Shaw.

This specially commssioned work is the first comprehensive and up-to-date volume in English on the Portuguese and Creole literatures of the five Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and São-Tomé and Príncipe. It begins with an extensive introduction to the cultural and historical context within which the literature of these five countries was created. There follows detailed discussion - with many quotations, each one in the original and in translation - of the prose and poetry published by the writers from these countries since independence. As such the volume serves not only as a textbook but as a cultural and intellectual foundation for specialist and non-specialist readers alike interested in the Lusophone world and in African writing generally.

The work is innovative in three ways. It combines a literary and historical approach that helps to explain the very complex processes by which literature emerged in African societies notable for their intriicate racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity. It also links African Lusophone literature to its three major cultural settings - the oral tradition of African or Creole literatures, the broader context of Portuguese-language literature in Portugal and Brazil, and the twentieth-century development of a distinct 'Black' and/or Negritude literature in North America, the Caribbean and Europe. Finally it discusses the ways in which Lusophone African literatures relate to the emergence of an original modern literature in the whole of post-colonial Africa.

Patrick Chabal is Professor of Lusophone African Studies at King's College London. His books include Amilcar Cabral (Cambridge University Press) and Vozes Mocambicanas (Lisbon: Vega). Biographical notes on all the five authors are to be found in the front of the book.

July 30, 1996

Dear Friend of Cape Verde,

Mr. Warren Texeira, President of the Aristides de Souza Mnedes Society, will speak on the life of de Sousa Mendes whose actions while Portuguese Consul helped save thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. It is to his memory that we dedicate our efforts to join together in friendship. Evelyn Schultz, her daughter Maria Van Angelen and Mrs. Yoffa da Cosata bring a personal message of their closeness to Portuguese and Jewish roots.

The Island Connection: Cape Verde...Rhode Island

UNU/SIN Electronic Seminar - Global Warming And The Ramifications For Small Island States

  Announcement of UNU/SIN Electronic Seminar 

Title:            Global Warming And The Ramifications For Small 
                              Island States
Date:           13-26 Nov 1995 
By:               William C. Burns,  Pacific Center For Intl Studies, USA
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  ABSTRACT 

Virtually every nation in the world will ultimately have to face 
the implications of climatic change related to global warming.  
However, none so soon, and with as a great a level of 
foreboding as those nations classified by the United Nations 
as "small island states."    

Global warming trends projected over the next century may 
result in sea level rises of one meter or more.  This could 
result in several small island states, many of which are only 
1.5-2 meters above sea level, being wholly submerged within 
the next century.  These nations include the Marshall
Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau and the Maldives. Additionally, rising 
ocean levels could severely denigrate fresh water supplies in 
such nations, devastate agriculture, and threaten coral reef
habitats which provide a home for many species of fish 
critical to the subsistence of inhabitants in many small island 
states.  Finally, climatic change may substantially increase 
the incidence and severity of hurricanes and tropical storms, 
wreaking havoc on the economic infrastructure of many of 
these nations.

This seminar will discuss the latest studies related to global 
warming, and more specifically assess the likely impact of 
global warming on small island states.  The author will also 
discuss the potential for small island states to invoke relevant 
principles of treaty and customary international law to
compel the major producers of greenhouse gases to 
fundamentally transform their policies so as to avert this 
potential catastrophe.

About the Author

William C. Burns is Director of the Pacific Center For 
International Studies in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.  The Center 
is a policy research organization which focuses on 
international environmental law & policy issues, including
preservation of biodiversity, desertification and global 
warming.  The Center is also active in public education 
activities, especially in the context of endangered species.  
The presentation here is an outgrowth of an article that Mr. 
Burns is preparing for the Ocean & Coastal Law Journal. 

Seminar Material 

The text for the seminar will be available on 13th Nov via the 
mailing list UNU.CONF-ROOM.KANNON@CAREN.NET.

Mailing List

The seminar will be conducted at the UN Univ electronic 
conference room called UNU.CONF-ROOM.KANNON; to join pls email 
listproc@caren.net and write the message:
SUBSCRIBE UNU.CONF-ROOM.KANNON yourfirstname yourlastname
e.g. subscribe unu.conf-room.kannon Wil Burns, PCIS

If personal assistance is needed, please contact: 
paoletto@hq.unu.edu 

Smithsonian Festival Experiences

The fact that the Festival is over should not facilitate a "closing of the door" on this spirit. On-going dialogue among researchers, fundraisers, participants, visitors and students of Cape Verdean/Cape Verdean American culture is necessary to critically assess the experience and its impact on the greater Cape Verdean American community.

For this reason, I am requesting all interested parties to share any impressions, opinions, evaluations, etc., of the Cape Verdean Connection. All comments are welcomed and not limited to positive feedback.

Exhibit of Photos at Harvard University

The Common Thread - Photographs by Ron Barboza
Oct. 13 through December.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Harvard University
11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA.

Among all Cape Verdeans worldwide there exists a common thread that runs throughout many of our cultural aspects. This common thread can be heard in our music, observed in our dance, it is even seen in our traditional "Pano" cloth, but perhaps where it is most evident is on our faces.

This exhibition shares the common thread that binds Cape Verdean culture in the islands and in the United States. The focus of this exhibition is on the beauty of the islands, the music, the dance and most of all the people of Cape Verde.

Ron Barboza

Help sought for Educational Documentary

Coral Reef Studies

Our interest in in climate data reconstruction. The Cape Verde Islands are in an unique position to monitor Sahel climate. Sahel rainfall is linked to hurricane frequency on the east coast of the US. There are few long term climate records from the Sahel. It would be useful to obtain such records. Reef-building corals contain annual growth increments in their skeleton, in a similar manner as trees do in their trunk. Dr. Swart and I are experts in extracting chemical and growth information from corals. In 1993 we traveled to the Gulf of Guinea (Sao Tome and Principe) to collect corals there for similar purposes. We think broadening our studies to Cape Verde will significantly extent out results.

What we would be interested in learning is the feasibility of making a visit to the islands and to conducting various SCUBA dives at various reef sites to collect corals. Of course, we would want to insure we had the proper permits, etc.

We especially seek information about travel between islands, SCUBA availability (tank rental, etc.), dive shops, small boat rental on each island, and very importantly if coral collection would need a government permit. Our initial visit would probably involve only taking 10 or 20 specimens. On later trips we would core specimens thus leaving the living coral virtually undamaged.

Any government contacts will be appreciated and helpful. We are gearing up to write the proposal and any local contacts or letters of support we might obtain would be helpful.

Any help or suggestions, contacts, or references would be most welcome.

Sincerely,

1996 CAAS Conference

Estou a organizar uma serie de paineis sobre a Africa Lusofona para a conferencia annual da Canadian Association of African Studies, que tera lugar em Montreal entre o 1 e 5 de Maio, 1996. Pensamos organizar 6 a 8 paineis dados exclisivamente aos PALOP's. Propostas de communicacoes, de qualquer disciplina, serao bemvindas. A data limite para estas e o 15 de Outubro proximo. Todavia, propostas recebidas depois desta data continuarao a serao consideradas.

As communicacoes poderao ser feitas em ingles, frances, ou ate portugues.

New Book - Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony to Independent Nation

[Lobban, Richard. Cape Verde - Crioulo Colony to Independent Nation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.

Westview Press, 5500 Central Ave., Boulder, CO 80301-2877
(303) 444-3541 or (800) 456-1995; Fax: (303) 449-3356]

Dr. Lobban offers a rich ethnography of the islands, exploring the diverse heritage of Cape Verdeans who have descended from Africans, Europeans, and Luso-Africans. Looking at economics and politics, Lobban reflects on Cape Verde's efforts to achieve economic growth and development, analyzing the move from colonialism to state socialism, and on to a privatized market economy built around tourism, fishing, small-scale mining, and agricultural production. He then chronicles Cape Verde's peaceful transition from one-party rule to elections and political pluralism. Dr. Lobban concludes with an overview of the prospects for this tiny oceanic nation on a pathway to development.

New Book - Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, 3rd ed., by Richard Lobann and Marlene Lopes

[Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, 3rd ed. Lobban, Richard and Marlene Lopes. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1995.

University Press of America, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706
(301) 459-3366 or (800) 462-6420; Fax: (301) 459-2118]

First published in 1979, this dictionary now includes an expanded discussion of Crioulo culture and modern politics, including the 1991 multi-party elections in Cape Verde. The introduction traces the pre-colonial and colonial past in the Upper Guinea coast as well as the background to Portuguese maritime exploration in the 15th century. The book offers an integrated overview of Portuguese, Genoan, Senegambian, and Jewish history from which Cape Verdean society has emerged. The book expands former entries and adds new material on the early Portuguese explorers and conquerors, as well as famous visitors such as Columbus, DaGama, Drake, Darwin and Lindbergh. The American Consuls to Cape Verde, the African Squadron, and ties to New England and Brazil with the Marquis de Pombal are now covered alng with new and expanded appendices.

Expanded and updated information is included on the Cape Verdean economy, emigration, foreign and domestic politics, with new and expanded sections on popular music and ethnomusicology specially written by Susan Hurley-Glowa, Doctoral Candidate in the field at Brown Uniuiversity. New material on linguistics, early inscriptions, literary figures, and other cultural and artistic traditions are updated and substantially enlarged. As well there are articles on economics, and ecology. Also provided are an expanded and more detailed historical chronology, acronyms, maps, definitions of Portuguese terms, and one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographies on the subject.

New Book - Portugal/Crioulo

[Monteiro, Vladimir Nobre - Portugal/Crioulo. Instituto Caboverdiano Do Livro e Do Disco: Praia, Cabo Verde, 1995.]

A deficil - por vezes incompreendida -, mas nobre tarefa de informar e dar a conhecer aos cidadaos, o "verdadeiro pulsar" da vida destas ilhas, e acalentada, desta feita, por este jovem jornalista, ao decidir abracar, teimosa e perseverantemente, "Portugal/Crioulo."

Vladimir Monteiro - "Val" para os mais proximos -, nasceu em 1964 no Senegal, de pais imigrantes cabo-verdianos. Licenciado em Jornalismo pelo Centro de Estudos de Ciencias e Technicas de Informacao de Dakar (CESTI), cedo predispos-se a assumir esses preceitos, extravasando-os alem autentica "simbiose de morabeza", as lagrimas, as saudades, os sonhos, o suor e o sorriso das ilhas...

Ei-lo, entretanto, de novo a viajar, desta feita, no banco da frente, com Joao Garcia, mas nao no autocarro n. 82, dos TCB. Ja de mala feita, ele e o nosso conterraneo, irao viajar no "Portugal/Crioulo", atentos ao pulsar de Cabo Verde.

Enfim, o mesmo sonho, ou o signo do crioulo..

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The difficult - at times misunderstood - but noble task of informing and letting citizens know of the "real pulse" of life in the islands is cherished, this time, by this young journalist who decided to embrace, stubbornly and perseveringly, "Portugal/Crioulo."

Vladimir Monteiro - "Val" to the closest - was born in Senegal in 1964 from immigrant Cape Verdean parents. With a degree in Journalism from the Center for Studies of Information Sciences and Techniques of Dakar (CESTI), soon he took upon himself those principles, reflecting in them the true "symbiosis of morabeza", the tears, the home sickness, the dreams, the sweat and the smile of the islands...

Meanwhile, there he is again travelling, this time on the front seat, with João Garcia, but not on Bus 82 of the TCB. With his suitcase already packed, he is our host, you will travel on the "Portugal/Crioulo", noticing the pulse of Cabo Verde.

After all, the same dream, or the sign of the crioulo.

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