Mass Mobilization for National Reconstruction in the Cape Verde Islands

Bibliographic Data

ID5120323
AuthorsBasil Davidson (0000-0001-5082-7872, corresponding author)
Year1977
Volume53
Issue4
Pages393
Publication date1977-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/142981
OpenAlexW1968568234
LanguageEN
Citations received15

From 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

Archaeology · Cape · Cape verde · Ethnology · Geography · Mobilization · Political science · African history and culture studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs

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