Mass Mobilization for National Reconstruction in the Cape Verde Islands
1977; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 53; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/142981
ISSN1944-8287
Autores Tópico(s)African history and culture studies
ResumoFrom here, where Vicente Amiral stands beside his field of maize, the ground drops away as though sliced by a giant's machete. Far below, in a valley of grey-green shadows, you can pick out the dots of little farmsteads scattered in steep glens and folds of what, if only there is rain, will be land good for cultivation. Level with you, on the other side of this maze of crumpled valleys, the slopes and ridges of the thousand-meter contour continue out of sight; and there, too, you can spot small farmsteads and fields such as those of Vicente Amiral's beside you. This is the landscape of Sao Tiago, the largest of the islands of the Cape Verde Archipelago. Although the other islands have features of their own-Fogo with its vast crater of a volcano still likely to erupt, Sao Antao with its beetling cliffs, Sal with its desert of sand, Sao Nicolau and the rest with aspects very much their own-this landscape of Sao Tiago is a characteristic one. Nearly four hundred miles into the middle Atlantic from the coast of West Africa, the Cape Verdean Republic is a land of rocks and periodic drought.1
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