Cape Verde: Volcanoes, pristine beaches, carnival | DW Documentary

The African Cape Verde islands have their own distinct genre of music and dance known as "morna”. It’s mostly in evidence during the carnival season across the archipelago that’s located in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal.
Each of the Cape Verde islands has its own charm and its own diverse landscape: from dramatic volcanic landscapes to the lush gardens of Sao Antão and the endless sandy beaches of Sao Vicente.
The documentary observes the everyday lives of Cape Verde people and hears about their dreams and aspirations. People like the young singer Claudia, the drummer Nuno and Catarina - the carnival queen.
They all love the typical music of Cape Verde, the "morna”, made famous throughout the world by Cesária Évora. It’s best described as a kind of plaintive blues that touches the soul and speaks of lovesickness, longing and the challenges of life. The young singer Claudia idolises Évora. She studies law, but dreams of a career on the stage. Music is her passion and she devotes all her free time to singing and playing the guitar.
Music is also a big deal for drummer Nuno. He leads the drum band at carnival time, the most important date in the Cape Verde calendar. People look forward to this festival for months and anyone who can take part in the preparations, does. Dentist Catarina has a prominent role this year: She’s attending as the carnival queen and is having an elaborate costume made for the big day. Will her appearance be a success?
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[@frogtraveller]

And I am the lucky one living here ❤ Two years of amazing weather. The people are exceptionally kind and welcoming - marabeza ❤

[@petersidetonye713]

At last a documentary about this lovely Island group DW.

[@geoms6263]

85% is about islam

[@flyby3079]

@@geoms6263actually if you were paying close attention majority religion is Christianity.

[@mrunkown7871]

@geoms6263 Islamophobic?

[@escapeearth2327]

@@geoms6263wrong, Christians

[@shachar777]

Now I know where this beautiful music comes from. It must never die🎉

[@Mhark127]

I'm gonna watch this because I'm Brazilian, time to know about other Portuguese speaking countries.

[@Adriano1ith]

I'm from cabe verde and after traveling in brazil if feels like it's a mini version of Brazil

[@petekib8634]

Did you see any similarities and differences?

[@luizantoniofranciscopinto8484]

Me too

[@matthewcole4053]

The Portuguese speak Brazillian

[@a.m.icadete7578]

​@@Adriano1ith, no, Brazil is a bigger version. The similar culture in Brazil was taken by the people that came from this island during the slavery era

[@denisagusevic5007]

Well done DW. The carnival is definitely worth visiting.

[@opengrapefruit1534]

I want to see a documentary about the people who work at DW including the dude who is the narrator

[@Kushbhingi]

😂😂😂

[@briopalumpus8676]

i like listening to their translator especially that old man who they always bring when doing russia documentaris

[@miriamzajfman4305]

What a rich beautiful culture ! 😍 - love from Canada

[@MP_mp20]

Never heard about this country before, thank you DW ❤

[@iamandreabrito]

You will be more than welcome to visit 🇨🇻☺️

[@adol7577]

14:10 Very true that donkeys are vital source of transportation for folks in far-to-reach rural areas. Petit, yet strong and reliable. There should be a National Donkey Day celebration in every countries that uses the animal for transportation. Great documentary!

[@mrunkown7871]

True!

[@badabinbadaboom7338]

Donkeys are amazing, deserve a lot of respect and recognition. Plus, they're smarter than horses 😊

[@polonrepy2599]

We dont have a national donkey day but we have a famous donkey song

[@adroitspartan7907]

Informative Doku as usual. Good job. Thanks for reminding me that Cesare Evora is Cape Verdean and not Angolan. Great music transcends all boundaries.

[@robertkerosi5660]

Watching from Kenya, impressed by the culture and the beautiful women, very nice country

[@lebo3793]

Some parts of it feel like Cape Town, especially with the carnival, colorful houses, and mountains

[@mssummer07]

So true.

[@Sydney_human]

Exactly my thoughts, even the people look like they could be from Cape Town.

[@michaelsamuel9917]

@@Sydney_human I'd say Brazil, or Trinidad etc.

[@brightonsimpanzye2520]

Nice country love from Zambia 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@SCORPIUSANCTUM]

DW is the best! Love this doc about another lesser known beautiful and magical island nation! Wish I could visit and also get my dental work done by the Carnival Queen & attend the festivities!

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. :)

[@2three362]

You can find the Gourde instrument in northern Ghana 🇬🇭, they call it Goanji.

[@wildwaning9427]

Thank you for that info. I recognize it being distinctly African as there are depictions of it in paintings and history books.

[@Kushbhingi]

In Kenya we call it Wandindi

[@kurlenejohn5463]

In Trinidad 🇹🇹 and Tobago, islands 🏝 ♥️ in the Caribbean, we call it ● CALABASH ●

[@user-rq7vb9fq9m]

Beautiful islands…I hope to visit Cabo Verde before long. Best wishes from the other side of the Atlantic - Nassau, Bahamas.

[@clarkmadrosen1780]

Beautiful islands. Easy going people. Thank you 😊😊😊

[@4kmoviesandtrailers67]

The island is super clean!

[@amariza21]

Before, like the 80s and 90s, specially the capita Santiago used to be very dirty. But now it looks different

[@alizialimazego9490]

Obrigada DW pelo documentário sobre Cabo Verde.

[@sabascaracas]

Beautifully made documentary!

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to comment and are glad you like our content!

[@ericmaniraho2260]

Beatiful people

[@peter.mwaura]

Wow. Spectacular carnival.

[@lucasjames7524]

What a lovely country and culture! I wish you had gone to Fogo to see the volcano, but it's hard to get everything into a 42-minute program if you're going to do anything justice. Hopefully DW comes back to Cape Verde for another documentary soon! 💙🤍

[@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731]

Thanks for saving me 40m. I'm from Fogo, since they won't be showing it i don't have to waste time watching.

[@Guizambaldi]

Morna sounds a bit like samba or bossa nova. I didn't know that genre. Thanks, DW.

[@amariza21]

Yeah cape verde was supposed to be a small brazil. Brazil and this country are closer than people think. Brazilians and cape verdeans should do DNA test and they will be surprised how close they are to each other

[@a.m.icadete7578]

​@@amariza21 no, Brazil is a bigger version of Cape-Verde. The culture similarity that you see in Brazil came from people taken from this Island and other parts of the African continent

[@Xtkal2456]

​@@amariza21Brazil has nothing to do with cape Verde. LMAO

[@Xtkal2456]

​@@a.m.icadete7578i live in Brazil and there's Nothing similar about Brazil and cape Verde 😂

[@amariza21]

@@Xtkal2456 learn your history

[@phebe9549]

Great docu @DW beautiful country

[@joello4226]

Beautiful country

[@AJaySmiles]

Beautiful job!

[@eugenio1542]

Spectacular 😮😊❤

[@thabisomkosi2245]

I absolutely love this country. One day I visit !

[@HappilyViewwithJulie]

Beautiful!!!

[@FHGodat]

Muito obrigado!

[@rachelle2666]

🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺 beautiful!!

[@amarcorreia1726]

Cabo Verde my beatiful country. Sodade de nha povo.

[@Sydney_human]

Beautiful indeed, hope to visit your beautiful country soon, from South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤

[@amarcorreia1726]

You will be welcome brother.

[@RangdhonuTime-cm1ow]

It's amazing ❤

[@siouxsie0679]

Oh wow I want to go there!!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting

[@DWDocumentary]

Thank you for watching!

[@richiexp2]

Nice documentary, I will be there very soon for my holidays...

[@DWDocumentary]

Thanks for watching. Have a great time in Cape Verde!

[@myjermedia]

Well done

[@JoseSantos-rt8fh]

My home country!!

[@valeriaflor3436]

Lindo!!! Obrigada DW! Vontade de visitar Cabo Verde😘 aprendi o Portuguese no Brasil mesmo que o sotaque e’ um pouco diferente😉 conosci um pouco do Cabo Verde atraves da grande e meravigliosa Cesaria!!! Saudade- Sodade Rainha da morna!😘

[@DWDocumentary]

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[@re-upteam3035]

How can we get in touch with Claudia so we can get her the Guitar?

[@benjamintaylor4402]

600 euros is approximately $660 US dollars. I am ready to contribute something if a verifiable person can reach Claudia.

[@tailoredteflon5738]

Pretty great the guy on the mountain had a patriots sweatshirt on. Its nicer than mine and I live in New England lol

[@amariza21]

Lots of cape verdean in boston. There is around 70,000 cape verdean in Massachusetts

[@samsmith2635]

17:58 The Dress has a metal frame, base is close.

[@nirui.o]

Face of the donkey with he saw the blue water canister:

[@lindasapiecha2515]

❤

[@bernardospinelli5588]

This is as much as about Cabo Verde than a documentary about Munich is a documentary about Germany.

[@IrenESorius]

👍‍‍🌟👍‍‍

[@youme1414]

Actually, Cape Verde is one of the two Portuguese -speaking countries of West Africa.

[@asha8443]

Guinea Bissau is the other one

[@applewood6]

Angola

[@youme1414]

@@applewood6 Angola is not in West Africa. The same thing can be said of Mozambique.

[@thandisilec835]

@@applewood6Angola is Portuguese speaking but it’s in central Africa not west Africa

[@estellecindysackey168]

Sao Tome

[@geoms6263]

The archipelago is an extension of Portugal. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Cape Verde Islands were uninhabited. They were discovered by Genoese and Portuguese navigators around 1456.

[@marcycardoso6282]

🎉🎉🎉❤🇨🇻

[@xandear1]

Beautiful place to leave in. Like here in Brazil, people there try to reach the happiness instead their personal problems. Best regards to ours brothers slavery descendants.

[@nasimahmed5726]

I want to know about the first background music. could you help me find it it out.

[@xxxxxx-kv3fs]

Myara Andrade - Afeto

[@revelinotavares3699]

Mayra Andrade Cantora cabo-verdiana

[@1004445]

What month of the year do they have this carnival?

[@revelinotavares3699]

February or March depends on the international carnival date .

[@1004445]

@@revelinotavares3699 thanks

[@marcioluis3829]

february

[@sxceve25]

I would love to buy her guitar for her...💯❤️

[@JanetLClark]

Ver-day.

[@efist694]

no,

[@Sir_Ray_LegStrong_Bongabong]

economic growth are in the growth of body

[@user-sh8yx4qq4i]

in winter so many countris dont know where to putdown snow ... why dont send it to the regions with water problem 🧐🤔

[@janklaas6885]

📍30:06

[@daveotuwa5596]

Carnival is like Mardi Gras, but in carnival, no necklaces are thrown.

[@takuan650]

Nice to see, nice to forget.

[@nasimahmed5726]

Do you know about the background music?

[@sasad7803]

Mayra andrade songs

[@iamandreabrito]

Nos kretcheu

[@JimmyRizo-eu8rj]

Doesn't looks or feels like Africa at all. Wow!

[@WARNER671]

That's something that people from there dont like to hear. It makes them feel lost. I've been there

[@michaelthethinker7214]

WAYTA - it looks just like the Calabar carnival.

[@youme1414]

Africa is diverse for goodness sake! Jeez!

[@afaria6173]

they are culturally and genetically half Portuguese and half West African.

[@lebo3793]

People have a limited idea of Africa. I would understand if you said it does not feel like West Africa. Africa is diverse

[@EnronnSierra]

When some of these western kids complain about not having the latest gadget's at other useless vanity, they need to watch this.

[@cidcid2054]

Stop saying Cape Verde please. It’s Cabo Verde

[@elson_correia]

Its english! Its Cape Verde

[@cidcid2054]

@@elson_correia it’s not because it is in English that it is correct. Cape Verde is in Senegal. Cabo verde is the name for our country.

[@rawill2595]

My family is from Cabo Verde no one takes offense from Americans calling it Cape Verde. It is more of a catch all name for the islands and area

[@cidcid2054]

@@rawill2595 well me too , my family is there and I was born there and you should ask the gvt in Cabo verde who is struggling since years to have our country called by its real name. So it is not offense to have things said correctly. You don’t translate the city of Los Angeles into the city of Angels so why should we accept the translation of our country name? Again Cape Verde already existed and it is offsjore of the Senegal coast.

[@sconroy6300]

Good point. There could be a marketing issue there. English speakers (probably the widest audience) would recognize Cape Verde, but that could be clarified at the beginning.

[@MyJuelma]

As an African from Guinea-Bissau, I think it's time the Europeans stop talking about the "Portuguese discoveries" because no one was playing hide-and-seek and waiting for the Portuguese to come and "discover" them. But as long it's the colonisers telling the (his)story of others, the demeaning language will keep on going. The European imperialist propaganda machine continues working at full speed!

[@zuuks9519]

Para sua informação, Cabo Verde era inabitado quando os portugueses descobriram as ilhas, SIM descobriram, o povo cabo-verdiano, tem origem na mistura dos portugueses com africanos, gente bonita com uma rica cultura. Quanto a colonialismo, não pode analisar séculos passados à luz do séc. XXI. A história não pode ser alterada, deve ser compreendida e analisada tendo em conta a data em que os factos ocorreram.

[@MyJuelma]

@@zuuks9519 Teriam "descoberto" as ilhas se elas (as ilhas) estivessem escondidas, o que não penso ser o facto. Encontraram lugares, mas não as descobriram. Deves ter utilizado o google tradutor, porque não entendeste o objetivo do meu comentário. Mas de qualquer forma, obrigada pela "informação" não solicitada. Simplesmente expressei a minha opinião. Não estou aqui para discutir factos passados, que afetam o presente de muitos, com detentores de conhecimento da internet. Peace be onto you.

[@zuuks9519]

@@MyJuelma Já vi que não gosta da palavra " descobrir", descobrir, é achar, é encontrar algo que já existe mas até então é desconhecido, foi o caso das ilhas de Cabo Verde; não usei o google tradutor porque falo e entendo suficientemente bem a língua inglesa.

[@badabinbadaboom7338]

​@@MyJuelma"descobrir" é do ponto de vista dos que desconhecem. O mundo europeu desconhecia a existência de tais ilhas e possívelmente muito do mundo africano também porque as ilhas não eram habitadas. Nesse sentido, sim, os navegadores portugueses descobriram o arquipélago de Cabo Verde.

[@JimmyRizo-eu8rj]

Love moanas. Cocaina....

[@sasad7803]

stop saying that Cape Verdean culture was influenced by Brazilian culture. We have a very similar story. In fact, everything that arrived in Brazil first passed through Cape Verde. study your history…

[@ArnethProductions]

❤‍🔥✞𓆪My friends, I want you to remember the message I preached and that you believed and trusted. *YOU WILL BE SAVED BY THIS MESSAGE* if you hold firmly to it. But if you don't, your faith was all for nothing. I told you the most important part of the message exactly as it was told to me. This part is: -` 🚨 ⏰ ´- *CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS, AS THE SCRIPTURES SAY. HE WAS BURIED, AND THREE DAYS LATER HE WAS RAISED TO LIFE, AS THE SCRIPTURES SAY.* **1 CO 15:1-4 CEV

[@TheStockwell]

Trolling for Jesus - what a pathetic and repulsive fetish. 🙄

[@badabinbadaboom7338]

Get a job, Karen.

[@terryhoath1983]

0.57 + Clearly, the beaches are not endless. Stupid hyperbole.

[@yana4182]

Stop advertising Cape Verde! Let me still enjoy my holiday in this affordable paradise for a bit longer!!!

[@Dan-fo9dk]

Since when was the Cape Verde islands in "the middle of the Atlantic"......???? Starting the video like that does not increase the credibility of those who has made the video.

[@RA-yf4tk]

It’s in the central Atlantic Ocean, where would you place it?

[@badabinbadaboom7338]

Get a freaking map

[@georgesos]

For 10 euros a day you can have your "guide" getting you all you need. But food is all imported ,local food is bad quality,sailing yachts are stopping there for a while and german guy has built a marina and is charging e traordinary prices. New houses are sold to foreigners to be rent out as holiday hotels. Avoid at all costs.....

[@amariza21]

Food is bad quality? I don't know what you are there, but I don't think you know what you're talking about. Cape verde has the same food you will find all over the world. A little africa, Spanish, 80% Portuguese and brazil, and Latin America. What ever you ate there, not sure what it was, but you don't sound you know what you're talking about

[@la1130]

Stop making stuff up. Homes are built by and for Cape Verdeans.

[@amariza21]

​@@la1130they is not true. Foreigners also owns real state in there

[@la1130]

@@amariza21 like every country. The vast majority of homes built there are by Cape Verdeans.

[@amariza21]

@la1130 That is not what you said. You said that the houses are built by and for the cape verdean. Of course most houses are built by the local. But the first comment is 100% correct on the foreigners are buying lots of land and properties over there. Don't say something u know nothing about

[@yougetaspear7799]

And then you hear an imperialist say it was discovered...how can you discover something when the natives were already staying there🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

[@walberdealbuquerquebarbosa6702]

It's interesting how de documentary ignored the cultural influence of Brazil on Cape Verde.

[@la1130]

What’s the culture influence besides Novelas…Cape Verde’s culture existed before Brazil was conceived. You should ask the opposite.

[@a.m.icadete7578]

Are you serious? It's the other way around. The similarity in culture was brought to Brazil by the people that came from this island and other parts of Africa. The Brazilian carnival has it's roots from the people that were taken there as slaves

[@walberdealbuquerquebarbosa6702]

@a.m.icadete7578 the brazilian carnival, you mean Rio de Janeiro Carnival , right? Carnival was brought by Europeans , samba was brought by Africans , but the way the party happens today in Rio , was made by Brazilians from different backgrounds. It's clear that Cape Verde Carnival was inspired by Rio's Carnival, the costumes and the organization of the event are pretty similar, also, I know Cape Verdian Music and there is huge influence from MPB and Bossa Nova. I don't know why people get offended by this fact.

[@walberdealbuquerquebarbosa6702]

@la1130 Novelas have a huge influence in cultural aspects, the same for Brazilian music. I don't get why people get mad for something obvious. All countries are influenced by others, for example the US influences many countries in the world exporting music and movies, series and etc.. and so, Africans influenced Brazil and Brazil influenced Africans , especially portuguese speaking countries.

[@user-vw6bk4pb4l]

@@walberdealbuquerquebarbosa6702 They could barely scratch the surface on this tiny country within a 42 min documentary, yet you want them to mention Brazil? Why do you think everything is about you?🤣

[@r-rtz]

go get a job

[@ErnestoSun]

That Cachupa cooked at minute 16:00 is totally inefficient and unhealthy both for the self and the planet. Poor food mskes poor people. Poor food has usually lots of meat and taste.

[@MurvMuzik]

Cool story bro

[@ErnestoSun]

@@MurvMuzik Thanks to commit to my provocation of the normal. Industrial sugar is the next known enemy. Less known but very bad: white flour. All typical poor peoples food.

[@aleale6277]

Fish, meat and fresh vegetables are poor peoole food?

[@ErnestoSun]

@@aleale6277 good question! This is important. The answer is actually Yes! Referring to 'lots of meat'.

[@asha8443]

I think that people these days lack constructive criticism..just because it’s tradition, it doesn't mean it’s the best way just like what you said about the cachupa

[@israel_started_it_ALL_in_1948]

ok. oh

[@SPKB1984]

Zero interest. The islands are mostly arid. No luscious vegetation.

[@IngramPetersJr-nr7rm]

Worth a visit!