1879-1918 History of West Africa 1939-1974





Cape Verde 1919-1939



In 1926, Portugal became a rightist dictatorship which regarded the colonies an economic frontier, to be developed in the interest of Portugal and the Portuguese.
Under this aspect, Angola and Moçambique were in the focus of Portuguese colonial policy, while Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea were peripheral. Frequent famine, unemployment, poverty and the failure of the Portuguese government to address these issues caused resentment. In 1922, he U.S. imposed restrictions against the immigration of non-Europeans, which discriminated against Cape Verdeans. In 1936 , a literary movement called CLARIDADE was founded, exploring the native Kriolu language.
In 1935, the ape Verde Islands had 158,930 inhabitants, 6,100 were listed as whites, 32,600 as blacks, 120,000 as of mixed origin. That year, the Cape Verde Islands had 318 km of telephone lines and 20 registered telephones.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Chronology of Cape Verde, by Raymond A. Almeida
Cape Verde, history of, from Infoplease
DOCUMENTS Banknotes of 1921/1922, from Ron Wise's World Paper Money
REFERENCE Hübner's Weltstatistik, 73rd edition, edited by Ernst Rösner, Wien 1939; in German [G]
Shubi L. Ishemo, Forced Labour and Migration in Portuguese African Colonies, pp.162-165 in : Robin Cohen, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, Cambridge : UP 1995, KMLA Lib.Sign. 304.809 C678c
Article : Cape Verde Islands, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1919 p.1164, 1924 p.1221, 1925 p.1229, 1926 p.1191, 1928 p.1225, 1929 pp.1201-1202, 1932 p.120, 1937 pp.1252-1253 [G]
Article : Cape Verde Islands, in : Americana Annual 1927 p.154, 1928 pp.137-138, 1930 p.152, 1931 p.142, 1932 p.141, 1933 p.136, 1934 p.133, 1935 p.127, 1936 p.119, 1937 p.108, 1938 p.107, 1939 p.115 [G]
Article : Cape Verde Islands, in : New International Year Book 1919 p.133, 1920 p.122, 1921 p.123, 1923 p.124, 1925 p.126, 1928 p.127, 1930 p.137, 1932 p.138, 1933 pp.131-132, 1934 p.120, 1935 p.123, 1938 p.128, 1939 p.118 [G]
Article : Cape Verde Islands, in : Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Encyclopedia Year Book 1932 p.144, 1933 p.110, 1935 p.118, 1936 p.103, 1937 p.103, 1938 p.105 [G]



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