Salah O. Mateus, aka (Mutabani Wa Kintu Katonda) Bantu
I AM CHER'NO SALAH, Born 6/29/33, New Bedford Mass.
Cabo-Americano

The people who are called Caboverdeans are made up of many different human species, from Europe, Africa, Asia, India, South America. From Europe it would be Portuguese that would also be the mixture of people that make up Portugal, such as the Moors and many other native tribes in North Africa such as the people from Libya, Mauritania all along the Mediterranean Sea, Romans, Spain and of course the people from the North. Portugal is a mixed people. When Portugal became a power in its own right, they also mixed with many other different tribes from Africa and the Middle East.
The people who became known as Caboverdeans are a mixed people, mixed with the people of Portugal & many different tribes from Africa and the Middle East and some from far away as China. Portugal was a great empire and people of the sea. Why the archipelago was called Cabo Verde? We can only say that the Portuguese sailors named it after a place in Senegal, which is a peninsula called Region du Cap Vert between Rufisque and Dakar, as a point of reference for the navigators.

In order to save all the argument whether the people are African or not is not so important. What is important: by choice the Republic of Cabo Verde has made it clear they are of the African identity; but that is not to say all the people of Cabo Verde are Africans. We belong to the African continent; being Caboverdean is a misnomer but we are people made up by many nations and tribes. Some Caboverdeans have family in Africa that go back to a particular tribe. Some Caboverdeans have families in Portugal or in France, and some in Syria and Brasil and some in Holland. They choose to be called Caboverdeans & they are of the human beings of our planet. In Cabo Verde we speak of only two kinds of people that is male and female.
We are proud to say as all the historians and scientist say that Africa is the mother of civilization. We do not choose to get involved in the color code system of the racist. We are of this planet earth we hope we can make economic progress and make a contribution to all humanity because we are humanity. We are a beautiful garden; take your pick on what hue or complexion you want we just hope that you will be happy with your choice. What has color got to do with it?
I would like to bring something to your attention: the word Africa is an old Arab word Afrake which means to divide and that is what they did. Divide us. All of us. What was the continent called before the Arabs did Afrake?

I would like to bring something else to your attention; one of the ancient names of the archipelago called Cabo Verde was called by many of the elders AZIJAH that is in part African Arab tongue. AZIJAH means the mighty Power of God. The prefix Aziz means Power or the Precious of God. The Djah or Jah or Dia means God or Allah or Deus all are the same. Jah is the suffix. The two words together form AZIJAH, which again is to say The Mighty Power Of God or the PRECIOUS of God. The Creole (pidgin) is Guinea Arab Africa, Portuguese and other variables in terms of other languages. For example the late Dr. Amílcar Lopes Cabral (aka) was ABEL-Djassi or Djhassi, which meant the servant or God, Abel meaning servant and Jah in its variables meaning God or Deus or Allah as you wish.
Now all that being said, which certainly leaves room for debate I am sure. What do you all think on the subject?
Well as all of you know that Cabo Verde was colonized for 500 years by Portugal and the biggest influence was by the Roman Catholic Church and the dictator of both the church and the fascist government of Portugal. This will be our next topic. Well my dear friends here we are the year 2000 moving and moving on.

Cabo Verde and its people are going through a lot of changes since independence. From PAIGC to PAICV and MpD. Do some research? Looks like the MpD, which is the movement for democracy, has in their form of democracy sold everything back to the Europeans. It does not take long for the forces of Neo-colonialist to run their game in terms of privatization and economic progress for the rich and the bourgeois. What's new? Yes of course there has been development; but who is taking the cash out of the country? you got it, the Europeans. Who is left in poverty and more misery? You got that right again.
Don't give up hope. The people are seeing the light. Is it to late? No, it is never to late. PAICV is making a definite come back. We got Nho Lobo on the run. Oh for those who don't know who is Nho Lobo: he is the wolf who preys on the people with stories of making things better.

Amílcar Cabral is back on the rise the spirit is coming alive in our youth and in our people. Run those crooks into the sea. Tell no lies and claim no easy victories. Unidade e Luta.
Well my dear friends as I have said sooner or later there was going to be a change and here we have it. Paicv is back in control; that is the party that is most common with the ideas of the late Dr. Amílcar Cabral (Abel-Djassi).
Time does bring about a change. The question now is have we learned from our past mistakes? What will we do different to bring about the unity of the Caboverdean people in the wide world community of Caboverdean people?
Unless the government of Cabo Verde make an all out effort to find the correct mode of operation to guide and to educate the people with the proper information for their enlightenment, that is to say very clear who we are, where have we been, where do we intend to go and how will we do it for the advancement of the country and the unification of all the people.
We do strongly recommend that a Caboverdean critique of our cultural thought and history in terms of our humanity will be such that we take the best of what is, and make the best of what was, so that we give to the world a new way to see the development of humankind.

Certainly we want the best for our economic, social and cultural development, we also want to make the strongest contribution for Africa. We realize Africa has many problems and we cannot resolve them all; especially when we have so many problems of our own. Every African country must deal with its own set of problems but we can work together in many areas and give support to each other.
Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Conakry Guinea and other West African states can begin by making a greater effort for unity and economic progress.

We think that Cabo Verde will make an excellent place to have a University that will serve Africa as a model for education, democracy and unity. Why? Because Cabo Verde does not have the problem of tribalism and we have the ability to speak several of the official languages of Africa, and if the effort by the other African countries would make the contributions, we can bring students from other African states and educate them so they will return to their individual countries with a unity of purpose to break down tribalism and regionalism and that purpose will serve each country and in the long run. The Organization of African Unity will be strengthen for the purpose of its charter.

Our principles are to be universal and democratic and with equality for all individual rights and liberty guaranteed for all.
Our African scientist and their fellow colleagues and friends around the world can develop the best ways for the health and welfare of the African people. The cultivation of agriculture and land preservation and water conservation. How to bring fresh water to the countries that need it. Without water there is no life. We must develop the science agronomy and all areas of agrology: this was a theme that was proclaimed by Dr. Amílcar Cabral and others. We have a big task ahead of us but we know it can be done.

Mr. Mateus, what is the future of Cape Verde in the international cenario, specially when we see how small countries have been out-ruled by the big ones with the globalization?

I am a fan of this Forum!

It is one way to uncolonize the minds of our people. It is a great thing attending pertinent discussions that will help us get rid of thinking characteristic of colones and colonizees.

I THANK YOU MR. MATEUS for the thorough way you approached the Capevedeanity, and I believe you make a good Professor, only if you're not a Professor yet.

You said it right. We should not follow racist thought process, which will only serve to divide us.

WE ARE "CAPEVERDEANS". THAT'S ALL.

LET'S NOT PLAY THE GAMES OF THE RACISTS.

RACISM IS NOT LEGAL IN MANY COUNTRIES, BUT IT IS ALIVE IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE. EVEN UNCONSCIOUS ATTITUDES REVEALS RACIST THOUGHTS.

LET'S NOT GET TRAPPED IN THE WEB OF STEREOPTYPICAL ATTITUDES.

WE CAN BE BLACK AND STILL BE CAPEVERDEANS
WE CAN BE WHITE AND STILL BE CAPEVERDEANS
WE CAN BE MULATO AND STILL BE CAPEVERDEANS
WE CAN BE BROWN AND STILL BE CAPEVERDEANS
WE CAN BE YELLOW AND STILL BE CAPEVERDEANS

TO ME, FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY OF OUR PEOPLE SPREAD AROUND THE GLOBE, OUR ETHNIC CATEGORY IS "CAPEVERDEAN".

Love you all!

cabrala

Mister Salah,
It is with great pleasure that I devour your writings. It is a great honor to have such an erudite among us, and please keep writing, our people need to learn where our true value is. See, we keep running after an European dream when we could just talk to our brothers from the Continent. That is where EVERYTHING began and I firmly believe, it is where EVERYTHING will end. But we've been, as our brother from the Continent are, blinded by the Occidental mirage, forgetting that we have our own values.

Happy writings,
Lu

E' propy kela Sr Manu Até quando humanidades Ta intendi ma tive um homi que em troca di nada bem pa és mundu dà se corpo y se sangui, pa nos bem, um homi corragioso, mas fragil ao mesmo tempo, rico, mas pobre ao mesmo tempo, inteligente, humilde, y justo, ku mundu na se mon mas morri na kruz, kela foi um menssage ke kris dexa ma nada é ka mais ki vida iterna, unico kuza ki Jesus ka foi é sperto, pamodi é ka ingana, nem é ka tenta ingana ninguém........ Foi dificil Le tudu kuza ki nhu skrebi pamodi é em ingues, mas n' consigui, y n' kapita menssage.
N' gosta txeu y n' reforça nha crença na Deus y na Cabral, sim pamodi és é nha dois guia na terra.
Di ser dreto y purra tentandu mesmo se mundu em si ta tenta desviao, ama bus prosimo sima bu ta ami abò mesmo, mas horas ki bu atxa alguém ki ka ta amau? horas ki bu atxa alguém ki ka ta ama se cabeça? Tudu ta fica dificil, ki é sò Deus mé ki podi djudau.
Y keloto é Cabral homi ki dano um nome Y orgulho.
Sim cabral n' ta gostaba di conxeba él mesmo si as vezes é sima ke ta sta na nha lado, é fla ma el é ka kre nada sò odja ses povo livre y unido, E' morri pa amor di ses povo, n' prendi se filosofia di ser , flà kel ki bu ta pença, sem progidica, mas FLA', CABRAL KA MORRI KABRAL E' GRITO KI DIGUIGUI MUNDO. Cabral é um mito ki ta fica na cabeça y na corason di kem ki ka ta conforma ku maltrato, ku mentira, ku disprezo, y splorason na mau sentido.
As vezes n' ta pença ma um dia desses ma Cabral ta volta, sima um justiçero pe poi kuza na prato limpo, pé corri ku tudo bandidos y macacos ki dja toma terra y ki ka sta sigui se caminho, pè toma se txon pe cria ces minis, y pe educa ses fidju ami é Cabral y ninguém mas. por isso kim ta papia avontadi pamodi so él ki podi param à custu dim dexa peli na txon......

CABRAL

BU BAI, BU BAI, SEM FLà NADA
BU KA DADU TEMPO DI INXINA KUZAZ KI BU SABIA PA FIDJUS DI TERRA
BU BAI BO KU BU DOR BO KU BU BALA

BU BAI BO KU BU SILENCIO
PA MON DI BUS AMIGOS
BU VIDA CORTADU NA METADI
ES KA DEIXAU KA MOSTRA KUZE' KI BU BEM FAZI

BUS FAMILIAS FICA KU DOR,
BUS AMIGOS FIKA KU DOR
BUS DESCIPULO FICA KU DOR
ABO BU BAI KU BU DOR,
SIMPLISMENTI BU BAI BU KA MORRI

MAS N' SABI MA KES KI FAZEU KELA, MA DJA BU PERDUAS
SIMA JESUS DJA PERDUA SES ATROSSS

Sr Manu Sallah um abraço a kreola
Um bom ano novo, se pa pior dexano ku keli
Eroinacv

[quote="Salah Mateus"]Salah O. Mateus, aka (Mutabani Wa Kintu Katonda) Bantu
I AM CHER'NO SALAH, Born 6/29/33, New Bedford Mass.
Cabo-Americano

The people who are called Caboverdeans are made up of many different human species, from Europe, Africa, Asia, India, South America. From Europe it would be Portuguese that would also be the mixture of people that make up Portugal, such as the Moors and many other native tribes in North Africa such as the people from Libya, Mauritania all along the Mediterranean Sea, Romans, Spain and of course the people from the North. Portugal is a mixed people. When Portugal became a power in its own right, they also mixed with many other different tribes from Africa and the Middle East.
The people who became known as Caboverdeans are a mixed people, mixed with the people of Portugal & many different tribes from Africa and the Middle East and some from far away as China. Portugal was a great empire and people of the sea. Why the archipelago was called Cabo Verde? We can only say that the Portuguese sailors named it after a place in Senegal, which is a peninsula called Region du Cap Vert between Rufisque and Dakar, as a point of reference for the navigators.

In order to save all the argument whether the people are African or not is not so important. What is important: by choice the Republic of Cabo Verde has made it clear they are of the African identity; but that is not to say all the people of Cabo Verde are Africans. We belong to the African continent; being Caboverdean is a misnomer but we are people made up by many nations and tribes. Some Caboverdeans have family in Africa that go back to a particular tribe. Some Caboverdeans have families in Portugal or in France, and some in Syria and Brasil and some in Holland. They choose to be called Caboverdeans & they are of the human beings of our planet. In Cabo Verde we speak of only two kinds of people that is male and female.
We are proud to say as all the historians and scientist say that Africa is the mother of civilization. We do not choose to get involved in the color code system of the racist. We are of this planet earth we hope we can make economic progress and make a contribution to all humanity because we are humanity. We are a beautiful garden; take your pick on what hue or complexion you want we just hope that you will be happy with your choice. What has color got to do with it?
I would like to bring something to your attention: the word Africa is an old Arab word Afrake which means to divide and that is what they did. Divide us. All of us. What was the continent called before the Arabs did Afrake?

I would like to bring something else to your attention; one of the ancient names of the archipelago called Cabo Verde was called by many of the elders AZIJAH that is in part African Arab tongue. AZIJAH means the mighty Power of God. The prefix Aziz means Power or the Precious of God. The Djah or Jah or Dia means God or Allah or Deus all are the same. Jah is the suffix. The two words together form AZIJAH, which again is to say The Mighty Power Of God or the PRECIOUS of God. The Creole (pidgin) is Guinea Arab Africa, Portuguese and other variables in terms of other languages. For example the late Dr. Amílcar Lopes Cabral (aka) was ABEL-Djassi or Djhassi, which meant the servant or God, Abel meaning servant and Jah in its variables meaning God or Deus or Allah as you wish.
Now all that being said, which certainly leaves room for debate I am sure. What do you all think on the subject?
Well as all of you know that Cabo Verde was colonized for 500 years by Portugal and the biggest influence was by the Roman Catholic Church and the dictator of both the church and the fascist government of Portugal. This will be our next topic. Well my dear friends here we are the year 2000 moving and moving on.

Cabo Verde and its people are going through a lot of changes since independence. From PAIGC to PAICV and MpD. Do some research? Looks like the MpD, which is the movement for democracy, has in their form of democracy sold everything back to the Europeans. It does not take long for the forces of Neo-colonialist to run their game in terms of privatization and economic progress for the rich and the bourgeois. What's new? Yes of course there has been development; but who is taking the cash out of the country? you got it, the Europeans. Who is left in poverty and more misery? You got that right again.
Don't give up hope. The people are seeing the light. Is it to late? No, it is never to late. PAICV is making a definite come back. We got Nho Lobo on the run. Oh for those who don't know who is Nho Lobo: he is the wolf who preys on the people with stories of making things better.

Amílcar Cabral is back on the rise the spirit is coming alive in our youth and in our people. Run those crooks into the sea. Tell no lies and claim no easy victories. Unidade e Luta.
Well my dear friends as I have said sooner or later there was going to be a change and here we have it. Paicv is back in control; that is the party that is most common with the ideas of the late Dr. Amílcar Cabral (Abel-Djassi).
Time does bring about a change. The question now is have we learned from our past mistakes? What will we do different to bring about the unity of the Caboverdean people in the wide world community of Caboverdean people?
Unless the government of Cabo Verde make an all out effort to find the correct mode of operation to guide and to educate the people with the proper information for their enlightenment, that is to say very clear who we are, where have we been, where do we intend to go and how will we do it for the advancement of the country and the unification of all the people.
We do strongly recommend that a Caboverdean critique of our cultural thought and history in terms of our humanity will be such that we take the best of what is, and make the best of what was, so that we give to the world a new way to see the development of humankind.

Certainly we want the best for our economic, social and cultural development, we also want to make the strongest contribution for Africa. We realize Africa has many problems and we cannot resolve them all; especially when we have so many problems of our own. Every African country must deal with its own set of problems but we can work together in many areas and give support to each other.
Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Conakry Guinea and other West African states can begin by making a greater effort for unity and economic progress.

We think that Cabo Verde will make an excellent place to have a University that will serve Africa as a model for education, democracy and unity. Why? Because Cabo Verde does not have the problem of tribalism and we have the ability to speak several of the official languages of Africa, and if the effort by the other African countries would make the contributions, we can bring students from other African states and educate them so they will return to their individual countries with a unity of purpose to break down tribalism and regionalism and that purpose will serve each country and in the long run. The Organization of African Unity will be strengthen for the purpose of its charter.

Our principles are to be universal and democratic and with equality for all individual rights and liberty guaranteed for all.
Our African scientist and their fellow colleagues and friends around the world can develop the best ways for the health and welfare of the African people. The cultivation of agriculture and land preservation and water conservation. How to bring fresh water to the countries that need it. Without water there is no life. We must develop the science agronomy and all areas of agrology: this was a theme that was proclaimed by Dr. Amílcar Cabral and others. We have a big task ahead of us but we know it can be done. THE WORLD IS OUR OYSTER AND WE ARE THE PEARL.
I am that Iam going tp point out something that is very interesting
it is on the playing field and food for thought.

Just to show you that great men of great minds alway share something in common thru the ages of time.

THE GREAT TEACHER GAUTAMA AFFECTIONATELY CALLED THE BUDDHA.
THE GREAT TEACHER AMILCAR CABRAL AFFECTIONATLEY CALLED DJASSI. HERE IS WHAT THEY BOTH TAUGHT.

"TO BENIFIT ALL BEINGS IN THE UNIVERSE".

"BUDDHISM'S VIRTUOUS TEACHINGS THEREFORE EXTEND TO ALL
CULTURES OR PEOPLE:IT IS MULTICULTURAL".

THIS TO IS TO BE FOUND IN AMILCAR CABRAL'S TEACHINGS.

THERE IS NOTHING REALLY NEW UNDER THE SUN AND YET EVERYDAY
THERE IS A CHANGE THAT TAKES PLACE JUST A MATTER OF TIME AND SPACE. THE WORD BUDDHA IS ONLY THE AWAKENING.WAKE UP CABO VERDE? CABO VERDE SAYS! WE ARE NOT SLEEPING! IT IS ONLY THE BLINK OF THE EYE IN THE MATTER OF TIME AND SPACE.

HAPPY NEW YEAR
BOA PAS

PEACE

AS-SALAAM-ALAIKUM

MEIR.

BON ANNO NOBU.

MORABEZA!

Manu salah de Azijah SOBRADOS DA IHA DO FOGO.

Some believe CV is zion, because it was a place that many africans found refuge from drout even Ethiopians.