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Cape Verde - History and Culture - English
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Jorge Barbosa, poet of Cape Verde (acknowledgement to Basil Davidson).

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Jorge Barbosa --  Encyclopćdia Britannica - English
URL: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=13474&tocid=0&query=ilhu%20marinho&ct=

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African poet who expressed in Portuguese the cultural isolation and the tragic nature of life on the drought-stricken Cape Verdean islands. In delicately phrased verse that became a model for later poets, he often praised the stoic endurance of a people caught in an inhospitable, forgotten land.

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