What's New - 1999 What's New on the Cape Verde Home Page
New material and links to other sites of interest.

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Sept. 17, 1999

  • Cabo Verde

  • Other

    Sept. 7, 1999

  • Violence and Drugs in Cabo Verde and Capeverdean America
    • A homeland, but not home- Deported, young Cape Verdeans face grim realities (Boston Globe)

      Note: articles in the online versions of newspapers such as the Boston Globe typically become archived after a short period of time, usually one week or less. Accessing archived information may involve a fee. Search the Globe's archives for past articles about Cape Verde, Capeverdean America, etc., and for payment information.

      The Globe's Archives include:

      • Feuding Cape Verdean youths tied to an outbreak of violence.
      • Boston - Feuding Cape Verdean youths tied to an outbreak of violence.
      • >Deported, young Cape Verdeans face grim realities
    • Drogas e ViolÍncia: O exemplo da Ilha de S“o Vicente em Cabo Verde, ¡frica (Psychiatry On Line Brazil - 1997)
    • "Immigrants in need - Boston's Cape Verdean community wants social services, not deportation sweeps" - (Boston Phoenix)
    • New Bedford - South Central residents have message for drug czar
    • Ready to Live: Art and Life Beyond Street Violence.
        This site was inspired by the film Jesse's Gone, broadcast June 24, 1997 by P.O.V. on PBS. Jesse's Gone is a documentary about a young hip hop artist from East Oakland, Jesse Rahim Hall, who was killed in a drive-by shooting. The film focuses on Jesse's friends and family as they struggle to make sense of his death.
  • General
    • Capeverdeans in the Whaling Industry


      © Kendall Whaling Museum

      • Heroes in the Ships: African Americans in the Whaling Industry / Whaling Crews - An Exhibit at the Kendall Whaling Museum

        " Men and women of color had been involved in the Yankee whaling industry almost from the beginning. By the time photographers began to capture whaling images on film around the turn of the century, a majority of American whalemen were of African descent.

        "The largest and most conspicuous group were Portuguese-speaking Creoles from the Cape Verde Islands off the West Coast of Africa, for whom the whale fishery itself was the attraction to America. "

      • The Spirit-Spout - from Robert A. diCurcio's Companion Reader to Melville's Masterpiece, Moby Dick. (melville.org)
      • Capeverdeans in the Whaling Industry
      • Letter from New Zealand
      • Tony Lopes
      • Whaling (from Tchuba)

  • Cabo Verde

  • Capeverdean America
  • Other
    • Timor Leste - East Timor

      • United Nations

      • US State Department Press Briefings

      • Timor Today - East Timor International Support Center

      • W3C/TimorNet. An Information Service on East Timor (University of Coimbra)

      • New York Times
        • "Despite Imposition of Martial Law, Violence Festers in East Timor""
        • The Fruits of "Realism" - New York Times (1999-09-07) by Anthony Lewis

            " The savagery taking place in East Timor -- armed Indonesian thugs taking over the territory by mayhem and murder -- is something besides a human disaster. It carries a profound lesson for international affairs: the price that can be paid for Kissingerian "realism." "

          STUDENTS: Consider registering on the New York Times web site to be able to access the complete online edition, and detailed versions of all stories. This is free, but you must register. A recommended resource for students. Also check out the Times' Learning Network.

  • Miscellaneous

    April 15, 1999

  • Cabo Verde
  • Capeverdean America

    April 2, 1999

  • Resources for Students and Teachers

    • Portuguese Exploration -from The European Voyages of Exploration
        " The Age of Exploration marked the apogee of Portuguese imperial power and wealth. At the beginning of the fifteenth century Portugal had a population of one and a quarter million and an economy dependent on maritime trade with Northern Europe. Although Portugal lacked the wealth and population of its contemporaries, it would lead the European community in the exploration of sea routes to the African continent, the Atlantic Islands, Asia and South America over the course of the next century. "

    • Drought in Africa

    • The Harmattan
      • The Harmattan Defined
      • Local Winds - (from NASA's Oceanography From the Space Shuttle web site.)
          Across West Africa, in all seasons other than the summer, the hot dry harmattan blows from the Sahara Desert to carry dust far over the Atlantic Ocean. Though mainly the derivative of the northeast trade winds, the harmattan may be enhanced in the fall and winter by an easterly moving low-pressure system.
      • Saharan Dust over the Canary Islands - (MOS-IRS imagery)
      • The Harmattan in Dogon country in Mali.

    • Oceanography (and physics, math, maps, navigation, biology, ..... Super resources!)

  • From the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
    • FAO/GIEWS Sahel Report - 10 Oct 1998 - FAO Global Information and Early Warning System on food and agriculture.
        " The "Sahel Report" is issued every month throughout the growing season, which lasts from June to October, by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System on food and agriculture. The report describes weather conditions, pest infestations and crop prospects in this drought-prone zone. A synthesis report is published at the end of the season containing first harvest estimates, based on a series of Crop Assessment Missions which are undertaken jointly with national and regional authorities."

    • Small Island Developing States - FAO Web Page - includes documents from the Special Ministerial Conference on Agriculture in Small Island Developing States, Rome, 12 March 1999.

    • Cape Verde: Placard urging people not to waste drinking-water.
        " A simple message about an essential resource. Information campaigns can play a vital part in improving living conditions and promoting sustainable development for rural and urban people."
  • Data Bases

  • Capeverdean America

    Mar. 27, 1999

  • General

  • Cabo Verde

    • Corps surveys water system - Water resources survey recently completed on the island of Santiago by the Transatlantic Programs Center (TAC).

    • Fishing Agreement - Bulletin EU 1/2-1998 (en): 1.3.271 - agreement between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Cape Verde on fishing off the coast of Cape Verde. From Europa- the web site of the European Union

    • VOA Portuguese to Africa - PORTUGUES PARA AFRICA - "We broadcast to/Transmitimos para Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome e Principe"
        VOA Editorials on Africa - "VOA WILL PRESENT THE POLICIES OF THE UNITED STATES CLEARLY AND EFFECTIVELY, AND WILL ALSO PRESENT RESPONSIBLE DISCUSSION AND OPINION ON THESE POLICIES." --U.S. Public Law 94-350

    • Travel Documents for Cape Verde - from TRAVEL DOCUMENT SYSTEMS, INC. Passports, Visas, Travel Documents
    • Excite Travel: Destinations: Cape Verde

  • Cabo Verde and Capeverdean America

    Mar. 12, 1999

  • General

     

  • Media Study

    • Pedagogy, Power, Politics - Literate Practice Online - from Computers and Texts, the journal/newsletter of the Centre for Textual Studies - "information and resources to help you make the most of communication and information technologies for teaching and learning in the humanities and arts."

        "What are the social implications of computer-literacy and what might be the future of computer-based distance education? This article examines the questions of literacy, pedagogy and the consequences of computer-based communication. The authors detail a case study of online collaborative writing and the implications for the relationships between readers and writers."

    • Prof. Donaldo Macedo, cited by Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky in Articles in popular media

        "According to Donaldo Macedo, author of Literacies of Power, schools and the media play a big role in perpetuating political ignorance. They reproduce cultural values that "distort and falsify realities so as to benefit the interest of the power elite." Our culture fails to see the perils of political ignorance. We acquiesce to dominant discourses about deficit reductions and excessive public expenditures. We accept the implicit authority of the media and corporate spokepersons unquestioningly. The immediate price of our credulity: increased human suffering for those who rely on public support. "

    • From ISEA, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts:

        Virtual Africa

        In order to stimulate francophone and African Internet art, the Inter-society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) will be offering web Creation workshops to over 20 artists in Dakar during the month of February. The Internet training and web design workshops, which will be held at Metissacana, the first Internet cafe in West Africa, target professional Senegalese artists working in various disciplines (sound, visual arts and literature). Apart from the creation of original material for the web, the workshops aim to outfit each artist with the skills necessary to access new modes of expression and communication, all while providing international exposure.

        The workshop content could be informed both by the contemporary Expriences of the artists as well as by the rich cultural heritage of the region -for instance, that which is embodied in the oral tradition, stories, and legends. Another goal of the project is to encourage net-art projects and "cyber-collaboration" between artists in Dakar and around the world.

        Join CyberAfrica by pointing your browser to: http:www.isea.qc.ca/africa

        [Note also: African Art and New Technologies - April 23, 1999, CinÈmathËque quÈbÈcoise, MontrÈal]

     

  • The Capeverdean American Experience

    • Remembering the Past - The Cape Verdean immigrant.     (from The Standard-Times)

    • CABO-VERDIANOS - O sonho americano /The American Dream     (from Expresso)

    • The Story Must Be Told - A Story of Cape Verdeans - - by Querino Kenneth J. Semedo

        A story about the forgotten cranberry bog workers, the Cape Verdean men and women who helped to build the cranberry industry.


      Anthony "Tinny" Barboza poses with his eight sons in New Bedford in 1974 - Photo courtesy of The Standard-Times

    • The Barboza Family - some of the children and grandchildren of Anthony Barboza, Sr., a well-known Fuller Brush man in New Bedford.

      • Anthony Barboza - is a highly regarded New York photographer whose work has been featured in Songs of My People and Black Culture and Modernism. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; and the University of Ghana, Africa.

      • Ronald Barboza - is an award-winning photographer who has taken more than 10,000 photographs of the land, people, and culture of Cabo Verde and the Cape Verdean-American community, and has amassed a large and unique collection of books, magazines and recordings pertaining to Cape Verdean culture.

        An exhibition of his photographs - Cape Verdean Images - was held at the Smithsonian Institution's S. Dillon Ripley Center in Washington, D.C. from June 10th to July 10th, 1995, in conjunction with the Cape Verdean Connection Program at the 29th Annual Festival of American Folklife. In 1998 he produced the first Capeverdean Film Festival.

      • Steven Barboza - is an American journalist and a practicing Muslim. He is the author or editor of several highly-acclaimed books including Door of No Return: The Legend of Goree Island ; American Jihad - Islam after Malcolm X, the only popular book available about the religious experience of Muslims, both black and white, in America; and The African American Book of Values: Classic Moral Stories, Steven Barboza (Editor)

      • David Barboza - Financial writer/reporter for the New York Times covers the stock market and business news. Following are some of his articles:

      • Bianca Barboza - Junior high school student

      • Adia Barboza _ Elementary school student.

    Feb. 23, 1999

  • Capeverdean Creole Institute - Major additions to CCI Web Pages, including information and announcements on ALUPEC from the December, 1998 UMass Boston Symposium.

  • Paul Pena - There was Paul Gonsalves' legendary sax solo with Duke Ellington at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956. Check out Paul Pena in Tuva, 1995.
    • Straight From Kongar-ool Ondar
      "If people live in friendship then peace will prevail and life becomes good for one and all. More than happiness people don't need anything. Our friendship (with the U.S.) began with Feynman and Leighton, and from our nation, Daryma Ondar, and we welcomed the friendship and we uphold it. With Paul, I play music."
    • Paul Pena: A National Living Treasure In Cole Valley
    • Paul Pena Wrote a Song
    • Deep in the Heart of Tuva - Musical Expeditions Series
    • Genghis Blues - Documentary on Pena and Ondar wins 1999 Sundance Festival Audience Award for the best documentary. Check out this site for the film review.

  • 1999 URI/RIC Summer Seminar in Cabo Verde

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