Black America's Connection to the African Nation of Cape Verde

Little is know about the African nation Cape Verde, locally known as Cabo Verde. Historically, the West African islands were as a stop-over for enslaved people being transported across the Atlantics. Some famous Cape Verdeans include revolutionary Amilcar Cabral, music icons Cesario Evora, Left Eye and Horace Silver. Ethnomusicologist and Artist Marcy DePina gives us a brief history and introduction to the African nation.

[@malimoor2654]

As a Cape Verdean I want nothing to do with a c v who wants to distance themselves from blk Americans they are our people too…one love.

[@kingelement4160]

facts..we are more related than anything else. literally the same people. And the history connection makes it more better. One Love.

[@christopherbonaventure8687]

It's a known issue with C.V. Folks ..

[@SHANNY13_96]

Real Talk Real Badiw Women Here That's Sampadjuduz/Sampadjudaz Activities Not Us We Are Not The Same...

[@SHANNY13_96]

​@@christopherbonaventure8687those are Sampadjuduz we call them confused creatures they not like us badiwz from santiagu and countryside we the r3al cape verdeans West african Men folk...

[@cierrajordan1930]

I’m Portuguese and black. And my great grandfather came from the Camp Verde Islands. He was a fisherman and met my great grandma n Hawaii. On my mother side I am third generation in America. I feel very special and unique for knowing that. So I like watching these type of videos. It honestly put everything together.

[@sadizzle]

My grandfather is Cape Verdean I didn’t find out till I got older 😅 but I have the blood 😍

[@because0011]

I was born in Senegal, West Africa and my parents were born in Brava, CV so I’m proud and enjoy all my African roots

[@kingruler8309]

My mom was born in Brava🇨🇻

[@because0011]

@@kingruler8309 we’re probably cousins lol

[@kingruler8309]

@@because0011 probably lol Baptista was her last name.

[@SHANNY13_96]

Bunch Of Sampadjuduz And Sampadjudaz From Djar'Fogu And Dja'braba Was Born In Senegambia I Don't Why It Seems They Went There A Lot..

[@DutchMaster23]

Thank you for this!!! A EXCELLENT description of Cabo Verde to someone who may not know who we are. Touched on a lot of points of culture! I love the refrences back Africa, something unfortunately we will never get the full scope of. Ms. Marcy is not afraid to lay out the real issues facing CVs domestically & back home in CV. I wish this was a full episode or more!

[@1fiaro]

Well said

[@Capeverdeluv1]

Horace Silver is my cousin on my mom’s side 💜 RIP

[@joyceeldridgehoward5306]

Interesting! I've been to West Africa, including Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Togo/Benin, Senegal, the Gambia and at that time, there was no offering by the travel agents to visit Cape Verde. Thanks for the info.

[@PLZRWD]

I can’t wait to finally visit Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 I got stuck in Ghana 🇬🇭 and had to cancel plans due to the virus and borders closing... But CV and Senegal are definitely next on my journey 🌍❤️

[@Flowers4848]

@Grayson Jonathan SPAM ALERT!

[@titusjomo7114]

Stay we’re you’re please am a Sierra Leonean presently residing in Cape Verde they’re way too racist

[@titusjomo7114]

Cape Verdean are too racist that’s all

[@chimebanyi7885]

@@titusjomo7114 I would like to learn more about your submissions. How can i write or chat you up? Reply 👍

[@glitbow7630]

@@titusjomo7114how

[@johnb3696]

Wow my ancestors go back the Verdi since 1650 wish I can go there and visit

[@tralamont]

Excellent content! Would love to learn more about Cabo Verdean communities across the diaspora. Thank you!

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@tralamont]

@@trillone87 that's part of our history. Are you Cape Verdean too?

[@trillone87]

I know a lot about your history

[@tralamont]

@@trillone87 that wasn't my question, but it's nice to know people are interested in learning about Cabo Verde. ✌🏾

[@Badjuda]

In Luxembourg we are a lot

[@vinnyrichardsduartegilmete3496]

Lisa Lopez of TLC 1 parent Cape Verdean. John Gonsalves' impromptu solo at the Newport Jazz Festival with Duke Elliington Orchestra being a significant turning point in the path of the Jazz genre.

[@inesflores4948]

so is Beyonce husband.

[@fomalhauto]

Lisa Lopes

[@chrisgis1165]

@@inesflores4948 No he isn't. His ancestry is Rwandan.

[@darrellpasion8925]

Lopes not Lopez the surname is portuguese not spanish

[@vinylsingleman]

The Tune Weavers (known for their hit "Happy Happy Birthday Baby") were of Cape Verdean ancestry.

[@savagegalla6561]

In 1501, the Portuguese began to depopulate the Beothuk Indians to Cape Verde as slaves. Black Indian slavery destroyed the Indian nations of Natchez, Yamasee, Pequots, and Mohegan Tribes.

[@cvboy70]

There's no evidence to support your claim

[@savagegalla6561]

@@cvboy70 read the rest of da comments I could name more books and more sources genius

[@savagegalla6561]

@@cvboy70 how are you going to respond with no sources no knowledge of historical context or without reading all my comments smh ignorance is blissed. Read a book and don't come 4 me until u learn to read

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@nycsweetnessniijiamarukhan7918]

@@cvboy70 A book called "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen

[@vinnyrichardsduartegilmete3496]

Very nice, thank you Afroverdiana Queen. A few notes: CV's love to claim all the islands, and rightly so, yet still enjoy knowing the specific island origins, such as R&B group Tavares is Praia (I'm informed), Horace Silver (I'm informed has USA relatives who're descendants of San Nicolau), musical icon Kalu Monteiro I'm certain is Ponta do Sol, Sintonton Santo Antao, Michael Beach's mother (Gomes) I know her from CVSC Association but not sure which island, I'm a DNA relative of the Judge but not sure of his family's original island but closer relatives of his are from Brava, Kenny Barboza Fashion Photographer Fogo / Brava.

[@rizza7862]

How are you Vinny, I'm a Gomes/Santos on my father's side, they're from Sao Nicolau; Fox Point~Providence.

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@larrymyers5989]

Plus D the flyest. And a few rappers.

[@Therootdoctress]

it goes deep wow.cant wait to visit

[@Jorgerodriguez-oq2om]

Too bad she didn't talk much about music which for me is the main thing for Cao Verde to be proud of, especially someone as iconic as Cesaria Evora.

[@richbabe7836]

I know us black Americans are apart of the Tribes. Just learned of Cape verdes 10 mins ago and had to go searching on whether they are apart of us too! Looking at pics of them on google, they look very much like us Black Americans ❤

[@glitbow7630]

@@goldeternalhow do you know if your ancestors came through here

[@char08fal]

@@glitbow7630 I don't know if my ancestors came directly from but possibly through. I have lots of Senegalese and Guinean ancestry and I have some CV dna matches that I share an African ancestor with

[@glitbow7630]

@@char08fal how did you find that out?

[@char08fal]

@@glitbow7630 Took a few ancestry tests and talked to matches

[@glitbow7630]

@@char08fal now that’s interesting what test did you take, are you from the boston area?

[@mbandrade5262]

Nice doc, well-done.

[@la1130]

She's wrong about where in Africa our ancestors came from. We descend from Senegambia. This is both proven from historical records and DNA tests. The vast majority of our African dna is from the Wolof, Mande, and Fulani of Senegambia. Out of all the colonized countries with people of AFrican descent outside of the continent, we are the most homogeneous as far as AFrican DNA is concerned.

[@bintudampha4855]

Exactly.

[@abdouliesaidy9594]

Like kunta kinte Mande

[@Obsermeneh]

Well said. I'm from west Afrika as well.

[@bpcj4891]

My DNA test came up with Senegambia and Guinea Bissau. I agree with you that these are the primary ethnicities, however, the genetic makeup of Cape Verdeans is more complex than that. The genetics differ from island to island and the Cape Verdean genetics is a result of the admixture of four parental populations: Iberian Peninsula, West Africa, North Africa and the Sephardic Jewish population. For more info you can check out this study www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3511383/ as well as the following blog, which has easy to read charts with genetic breakdown: tracingafricanroots.wordpress.com/

[@LaS88709]

I do not think she’s wrong. She just did not list other countries. What she was trying to do was actually pull evidence from other counties to prove her point in regards to your ancestors. I believe all slave descendants come from all over west Africa except for Liberia.

[@aj1sales]

Great Video on our history.....The famous fashion photographer mentioned is my cousin, He is Anthony Barboza....his brother Ken Barboza who was mentioned. Ken owns KBA Inc. which is his brother Anthony's agent.....

[@heatherboz]

aj1sales that is also my cousin crazy

[@rahamsolano1200]

My Roots are in Curaçao and Colombia,mij Kids are mixed with cabo Verde, because there mother is from there St Vicente. In Curaçao we got Street name.calls Cabo Verde weg, Means cabo Verde way CURAÇAO AND CABO VERDE... LOVE

[@SHANNY13_96]

Wow 😍 I didn't know that my pop From Curaçao 🇨🇼💙🇨🇻

[@kennysantos2158]

My lovely country 🇨🇻🇨🇻

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@vinnyrichardsduartegilmete3496]

Music touched upon, Morna is the recognized World Heritage art form, rooted in poetry of Brava with beautiful interpretations and growth on each other island, particularly in Mindelo, the cultural capital and traditional economic center. There are many different musical genre, many strong African influences particularly on Santiago. Latin dance styles are traced back to Cape Verdean origins before migrating across the Atlantic according to prominent British musicologists.

[@joaomortay2707]

Wow great info 💪🏽🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻

[@bquickhun59]

this was very interesting as am struggling to identify myself with Africa coming from the United States and now going back to Gambia God bless all

[@Tee-Kay_9708]

Get a DNA test to find out your African lineage. Once you find that out, you will feel connected.

[@glitbow7630]

You’re American be proud

[@bquickhun59]

@@glitbow7630 proud am not but grateful yes ‼️🙏

[@glitbow7630]

@@bquickhun59 why not proud 😢

[@angrybritches1854]

@@glitbow7630 Because the "The United States of America" was founded upon the genocide of Natives of the Americas, and Transatlantic human trafficking. Our culture, names, song, and history was stolen by Colonialists. What I hear mostly from Europeans is that Stockholm Syndrome is a bad thing, unless many years have passed, then not only is it acceptable, but celebrated. Once "The United States of America" was forcefully built upon the backs of people of color, that power was used and is still used to attack and oppress other people of color upon the Earth.

[@mbk1511]

Many Cape Verdean Americans are colorists and do not want to be identified as Black. They identify as their colonial enslavers, Portuguese, and are quick to disassociate with darker skin tones. Imagine being ashamed of your true African roots but wanting to lean more towards the white colonists who stole, sold, traded, brutalized, raped, and impregnated your ancestors. My ancestors from Africa suffered the same treatment but there’s no way I’m referring to my self as British, or Spanish, or any nationality of the slave traders who enslaved my people.

[@SilVia-hs2kb]

Most Cape Verdians don't identify as Black ONLY because they are MIXED. Get off your soap box and accept the reality. You can identify yourself as whatever you want, stop judging others how they identify themselves!

[@glitbow7630]

Quit caring

[@hazeblak1417]

And that's a Damn shame

[@SHANNY13_96]

I Don't Ya'll Be Be Come Across Those Mfs Cuz I've Never See Em That's Crazy!

[@capeverdeanprincess4444]

This so not true at all(most Cape Verdeans like to pretend they are Brazilians rarely they like to be associated with Portugal). Now, majority of Cape Verdeans are mixed and proudly African. We are not going to deny our significant mixed heritage.

[@vinnyrichardsduartegilmete3496]

Could have used a little mention of the rich and varied maritime heritage of Cape Verde from the explorers, to the slave ships, to the Portuguese Spanish and British Fleets, Sir Francis Drake, the Barbary Pirates, and the American Whaling Ships from New Bedford Massachusetts which took Cape Verdeans around the world to significant presences in Hawaii, California, the South Pacific, and of course Massachusetts.

[@bpcj4891]

That would have been great! My Nana's uncle and grandfather were CV whalers (Hippolito Lamas and João S. Pinto)

[@bpcj4891]

I knew I recognized your name.. I have seen it many times in the CV DNA Facebook group :) I was perusing it just now and saw a post from you and made the connection!

[@rebecca8525]

I live in Massachusetts, and I know a Cape Verdean immigrant who has some African features, but he also has olive skin and hazel eyes. So I’m not surprised to know that not all people who settled in Cape Verde were from Africa.

[@SHANNY13_96]

​@@rebecca8525No Not At All British Italian Dutch German French Irish French Iberians aka Spanish-Portuguese And Goa Island And Sri Lanka Descendants They Settled Here Too They Even Brought Navite Americans Too The Real West African Cape People Are Badiwz Wich Don't Need To Dna Ancestry Cuz They Know They From Here...

[@SHANNY13_96]

They Did Also Wampanoag Too

[@ondinamaduartefonsecarodri59]

Continuo: Nós, os cabo-verdianos não temos necessidade de procurar as nossas raízes. As nossas raízes, nasceram connosco. Como disse Gabriel Mariano: nós somos as nossas raízes. Os black-american, até hoje, procuram as suas raízes, porque vivem num país que os não reconhece como cidadãos americanos de pleno direito e para mais, sofreram e continua a sofrer, forte discriminação pelos seus co-patricios white. Enquanto que nós cabo-verdianos nada disso temos na nossa sociedade. Porque somos todos mestiços. Estudem com atenção e profundidade histórica , a nossa cultura. Nada tenho contra o sofrido black-american. Antes pelo contrário, a minha sidariedade é de sempre. Mas nada temos de similar, culturalmente falando, na hora actual com ele.

[@vinnyrichardsduartegilmete3496]

Could have mentioned background mostly Western and Southern African people with strong Iberian Peninsula but also distinct British Isles, French, and North African Moors and Jewish presences.

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@capeverdeanprincess4444]

Exactly!

[@lamejdavid4254]

Marcy, hey it's been years....this is Jemal from New B.... had to look twice once your name pulled up on the screen... a second part is needed to link more of the connections of CV worldwide and the contributions

[@hpygrl001]

Thank you for acknowledging not knowing where you belong. For a long time, I disliked my dad's distant family because they treated my mom badly because she was African American and dad married her. The first racism I ever saw was when I was four years old and the treatment of my mother. My grandfather was not like this, and he associated himself with being Cape Verdean AND black, just not African American. He saw black people as his own people, like cousins. Eating different food, speaking differently, but still related. Not many Cape Verdeans in Canton, Ohio associated themselves with African Americans other than my dad and his immediate family.

[@LaS88709]

As soon as Afrobeats hit the map everyone wants to be Afro this Afro that. Me I am happy I am AFRICAN!!! Proudly Liberian!

[@menoyb7749]

Really, then why is your hair modified to look more like the whites? Try self acceptance 1st. Born Caboverdeana African & happy since I can remember & I don't give fs about Afrobeats, but love my CV music

[@LaS88709]

@@menoyb7749 Go to bed!

[@menoyb7749]

2 early where I am now. Start showing your true hair. Sad whites still has so many Africans brainwashed

[@glitbow7630]

Y’all don’t have running water where you’re from and y’all got “Afro beats” from blk Americans just calm down

[@kingelement4160]

Fela Kuti said music is very spiritual thing. Maybe afrobeats may have influenced and calling people to come back home…you don’t have to be so bitter. People are lost and just trying to find they way.

[@savagegalla6561]

As early as 1636, after the Pequot War in which 300 Pequots were massacred, those who remained were sold into slavery and sent to Bermuda. Major slaving ports included Boston, Salem, Mobile, and New Orleans. From those ports, Native Americans (Indians) were shipped to Barbados by the English, Martinique, and Guadalupe by the French and the Antilles by the Dutch. Indian (Native American) slaves were also sent to the Bahamas as the “breaking grounds” where they might have been transported back to New York or Antigua. The Pequot War was an armed conflict between the Pequot Tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook Colonies and their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan Tribes) occurring between 1634 and 1638. The Pequot Tribe lost the war. In the end, about 700 Pequots were killed or taken into captivity. Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery in the West Indies; other survivors were dispersed.

[@nycsweetnessniijiamarukhan7918]

Yes! And in this book called "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen he states the Canadian indigenous people from Newfoundland were taken to Cape Verde by Portuguese enslavers. I would love to see more info about the Beothuk Indians sent to Cape Verde. We are told these people are extinct, but I'm not buying it. I think it's a classic case of reclassification and paper genocide

[@savagegalla6561]

@@nycsweetnessniijiamarukhan7918 facts

[@SHANNY13_96]

@@nycsweetnessniijiamarukhan7918 That's Facts My Nana Was Of Native Descendant, They Call Us Native-Cape Verdeans!!"

[@cabo970]

Thank you for this we know that ol Afrikaans or Afrikaans caboverdianos ol the afro Amerikaans or Afrikaans.. I love my home stil after 30 year in Europa i wos born in cv love my peaple....

[@Wolff13]

You may love your home, but you won’t go back.

[@MrMirna84]

Amazing information love it

[@jordanpacheco5347]

How can we share this Marcy,great history Salah

[@thegod625]

Well I'm going to tell you like this, if you guys are struggling to find out where you belong, then all you gotta do is look how you are getting treated, look at your skin color, look at your position and others who look like you and then you'll know you're black and you'll need to stand with black people worldwide cause we are all living in the same hell... Until we understand that then we'll all continue to struggle until we unite!! 🙄

[@SHANNY13_96]

Ummm Dat Part✊🏾✌🏾

[@glitbow7630]

They’re not black

[@camillainsonshine]

⁠@@glitbow7630What are they? If you’re staying that a “color” does not equal an ethnic lineage, then I can agree to that but if we’re speaking in general, understanding layman’s terms; maybe “melanated?” But I don’t know if I understand what you mean. Personally, I am from a Caribbean island, not native, obviously--my ancestors were dropped off here by ships during the Transatlantic but my deeper research questions for Cape Verde islands are for any connections to biblical tribes, the expelling of Hebrews from Portugal and Spain (time frames and estimated numbers).

[@glitbow7630]

@@camillainsonshine they’re mixed race

[@zitamorena1724]

😂 I’m Cape Verdean . We are just mixed race people from Africa.

[@paulosilvadany3391]

Nice docs 👌

[@savagegalla6561]

It's also worth the study of looking into native Brazilians sent to cape verde as slaves and other lands previously owned by the Portuguese. Also remember the moors once ruled Portugal and they were black and alot of mixing took place in southern Europe. Italy, Spain, Portugal, and france.

[@SHANNY13_96]

Not Native Brazilians Native Canadians And That's On Facts!!"

[@capeverdeanprincess4444]

France no, Spain, Portugal, and Italy yes.

[@Stev0_2125]

The island had people living there way before the discovery . But I guess I can give the white man credit

[@joaomortay2707]

Thank you omg I’ve been looking for more info on who was there before the 14th century because we have a theory behind it

[@joaomortay2707]

And if you have any other info can you please share

[@pedrocenteio6228]

@@joaomortay2707 the people you might be thinking about were from Mauritania. I saw one video on youtube where an African American interviewed a chief from a village in Mauritania and he spoke aboutit. Portugal recorded in the history books but said they were lost fisherman.

[@Wolff13]

Where’s the proof?

[@pedrocenteio6228]

@@Wolff13 historical testimony like any other proof that is the acceptable as evidence.

[@Bruin4Life]

My maternal grandfather and hi brother were born in Fogo, Cape Verde and came to the US (settling in New Jersey) in the early 1900’s. He married my grandmother who was an American Black of African and Native American heritage. They had four children, my mother was the 2nd oldest child. When other family came to visit from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and California, they all spoke Portuguese but would not teach us because they said “You need to speak English in the US,” and they could all speak, read and write English.

[@nisaroberts8607]

Hahahaha, let me guess. . . Jersey City? We’re probably cousins- you know us CV’s! My grandfather and grandmother immigrated from Brava .

[@SHANNY13_96]

They spoke kriole or portuguesa?

[@SHANNY13_96]

@ReportingMeIsntDisproof Oh OK U From The🏝 🤔

[@SHANNY13_96]

@ReportingMeIsntDisproof where u meet them in Arizona I know they in San Diego or something like that or San Francisco!!"

[@SHANNY13_96]

@ReportingMeIsntDisproof yeh I heard about those area Connecticut fall River Roxbury new england they run those I heard they Be new jersey too!!

[@theraplawyer]

Henry Andrade African record holder 110 meter hurdles

[@alphaomarbarry6511]

Is there a fulani people in cape Verde

[@AfricanMaverick]

There is a musical instrument from Cape Verde called Cimboa, it's similar to the Fula Riti instrument. According to some the Riti instrument from Senegal is a more likely predecessor of the Cimboa.

[@SHANNY13_96]

Facts I'm Part Fulani On My Father Side

[@SHANNY13_96]

​@@AfricanMavericktrue true

[@mamaflipperlife1443]

Our grandmother was born in Cabo Verde we are teaching our baby her heritage through art

[@margemsulniggas]

Amazing 👌🏾🙏🏾👑💖 greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹💖

[@SHANNY13_96]

Ain't nobody care about Ya'll portuguesa f all Ya'll!!!"

[@SHANNY13_96]

Fck Outta Here With That Flag Bumb Mf🙅🏿‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️

[@madam472]

I just learned about this area.

[@raphael210]

Why can't cape verdean people be black and portuguese. They are a mixed race. Doesn't mean better, just a unique blend of black people who can still claim their portuguese side. What is wrong with being both?

[@knuckles0519]

I'm an african American and I agree u guys are a unique creole people

[@SHANNY13_96]

Stfu claim who u Wanna to claim And stay in ur lane we are not the same we Africans!!!"

[@suzysuzy]

Excellente description. Merci

[@MariaAlverenga]

So right about the confusion, being african in America 🇺🇸 such a struggle

[@Bobinanena]

That’s the thing. You are Cape Verdean. Not Black American…..How is that hard to understand? When you fill out an application, check “other” and write in what you are… It’s very simple. Because Black Americans can’t go to any black nation and just claim to be what the locals are…

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@monica012077]

@@Bobinanena Cape Verdean is a nationality not a race. She's black, she's just not a foundational black american(FBA).

[@fomalhauto]

@@monica012077 black and white races are social constructs without any scientific basis They were created out of White Supremacist Ideology Scientific Racism. They're not even used in Genetics and Anthropology now.

[@BriLaDivina98]

@@monica012077 Most Ppl identify with nationality, not race

[@jiggmodollo88]

She really nailed especially about the confusion of race. Some cabo verdeans say they are black and some don't, that's why now on some applications they put a entire new box for just cabo verde...smh. Your black!

[@ILuvCapeVerde]

Not true

[@jiggmodollo88]

That cabo verdean are black or that they have whole box to themselves

[@ILuvCapeVerde]

You cannot make a blanket statement that Cape Verdeans are black.

[@thrphilli53]

one thing I noticed, She said white people discovered Cape Verde,, Dont that sound like the culombus discovering america lie? I mean, If blacks made it all the way to the land down under and all over the world, why couldnt they go 3 hundred miles off thier on coast. They want the world to believe that they had a part in eeeverything!I

[@aidensilvia7687]

My grandfather was supposed to be half portugese. Now in the United states census he is listed as black. However he never identified as a black man in any way. So my father took an ancestory test and found he is almost a fifth African. There is no confirmation my grandpa was cape verdean but the signs point towards it. So if anyone has an opinion I'd like to hear it.

[@Ghanaquankel2776]

Benzino parents are from Cape Verde.

[@santo8389]

Only his mother was Cape Verdean.

[@SHANNY13_96]

​@@santo8389not real cape verdean doe nationality yep but not west africa cape verdean

[@richlisola1]

Ummm what’s with the air quotes when saying ‘discovered?’ It was indeed found and founded by the Portuguese, the greatest sailors and and seamen on Earth.

[@la1130]

Local fishermen from the mainland used to use it has a resting spot. That's where the quotes come from... I supposed Europeans "discovered" the Americas also?

[@rizza7862]

@@la1130 exactly, the Portuguese got all of their navigational technology from the Moors who were recently exposed from Spain/Portugal after having ruled much of it for 750 years, yes years, not days.

[@SilVia-hs2kb]

@@rizza7862 if you knew about history, then you'd know that the Portuguese defeated all the Moors and muslims from their sea trading fairly easily and 100 years before Spain. That's also after having Moorish invasion for centuries. See what you can do when you don't play victim and actually do something with your life?

[@rizza7862]

@@SilVia-hs2kb shut up IDIOT!!! Show and prove, your insecurity is showing🤨

[@richlisola1]

@@la1130-Europeans discovered the Americas from their viewpoint, but I wouldn’t say two continents dwelled upon by millions of people for thousands of years could be truly discovered by Europeans-But to my knowledge Cape Verde was not settled, same as the Azores were not settled, until the Portuguese came to them. Why do you say the Portuguese “discovered” the Azores in air quotes? This video itself acknowledges that Cape Verde was person-less until Portugal planted its flag there. If I sound snide, such is the reaction your answer provoked.

[@teleguy5699]

Nicely done!

[@AljinoLaPrade1803]

Can anyone tell me if the Portuguese were involved in the slave trade in New Orleans?

[@shelbourneking7068]

Africans are rarely sea faring people, imagine Senegal is nearby and it took the Poruguese from as far as Europe to discover Cape Verde . If they had a seafaring culture in Senegal ,they would colonized the islands before Europians .

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@miketesla8550]

good point

[@briodiz4772]

that doesnt matter in this case because portugal would have taken over it any way, the portugese had better guns and so africans being their first would mean little.

[@ijn1216]

Lisa left eye was cv too

[@STUDYALLAH365]

Nah, she was of Honduran decent. She went back on a trip to visit and that’s actually where she died in an accident.

[@alinaramos7751]

@@STUDYALLAH365 she was cv also lmao

[@thejmancometh8292]

Her pops was half CV on his paternal side.

[@SHANNY13_96]

​@@STUDYALLAH365her dad from cv that's a fact

[@jae6335]

You belong where other non-AA Blacks fit. We and AAs need to mutually respect each other. We as Blacks need to be a part of the struggle to elevate the Black experience in this country, and we need to also be grateful for, and respectful of, the struggles AA forebears went through to get us where we are now. AAs also need to remember that a few non-AA Blacks also contributed to the struggle. Long story short, although we have our different subcultures, we should all be united in supporting the elevation of lives in the US, because it is a win for all of us.

[@xPaulxDx99]

Why generalize you’re self based on the color of you’re skin, color has nothing to do with culture get rid of that oppressive mindset

[@monicad351]

Interesting I never knew.

[@jamilnorwood4269]

When this pandemic id over, I definitely want to travel there!

[@SUBMARINO0909]

this "commentary" is full of wrong information, I say this as a historian of Cape Verdean culture. cape verde was discovered in the year 1460 not 1465... in terms of Cape Verdean population, music, culture in general is a mixture of Africans and Europeans... I won't be here quoting all wrong information, but I think they should have done better homework.

[@glitbow7630]

She’s Cape Verde herself you think you know more than her?

[@larrymyers5989]

Senegalese fisherman would sometimes occupy

[@Kalaqko]

Beautifull people, would not mind to have a woman from Cape Verde, i am from the Balkans

[@KalpaHettiarachchi]

Thx❤

[@shelbourneking7068]

Cape Verde have high unemployment ? I thought they had the highest standard of living in Africa .

[@nycsweetnessniijiamarukhan7918]

Seychelles, Botswana, Rwanda have a good economy

[@antbritto]

She said that right!

[@ijn1216]

Paul Gonzales my cousin

[@Boombastic82]

I desired for a long time, since i was a child to live in cape verde but i realized that it is an expensive county to live in and very European in terms of economy, and life style they use euros, and it seems the government dont want black people to relocate there. The island seems to be exclusively for Europeans to have vacation. Good bye cape verde will search for another country

[@childofthesoil1163]

Colonizers done great job especially ones who have been colonized by portugal iyo self hate is extreme but thank u to the lady she recognise her African history & chances most of what they know about their history has been distorted as usual i dont think cape verde was discovered by Portuguese why they never claim it a part of portugal since is theirs

[@karlschneider9479]

Cape Verdeans are some of the warmest, welcoming and loving people out there. I should know my step family is from Fogo! I love my cachupa, pastels and canja (sp). I also love CV music. I am a massive Mayra Andrade!

[@yodad723]

Don't really see the "connection" between the Black Americans ethicity and Cape Verden people. We have nothing to do with them for the most part and I'm sure most Black Americans don't know who they are or even around them on average.

[@dantaereacts2365]

What's your Ethnicity?

[@yodad723]

@@dantaereacts2365 Black American

[@glitbow7630]

How do black Americans not know who they are?

[@yodad723]

@@glitbow7630 Most Cape Verde people allegedly live in Boston as far as America so we're not really around them plus Black Americans generally don't know much about countries outside of America especially African ones.

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

​@@glitbow7630slavery. Most don't know the tribe they come from or what country in Africa.

[@vinnyrichardsduartegilmete3496]

Erroneous propaganda: not discovered by Portuguese - preceded by Phoenicians and so-called Moors, was part of a Moroccan kingdom which included Senegal more than 350 years prior to the Portuguese discovering slave trading with African tribal leaders. ‘Senegalese had a name for the islands prior to the Cape Verde Islands name.

[@madeinamerica8774]

Thanks for providing the real information.

[@2trappy2]

It was uninhabited before the Portuguese got there but yes it had been discovered by plenty of African empires before but they ignored it

[@reginaldmiddleton7017]

Agreed

[@SilVia-hs2kb]

If it wasn't for the Portuguese it would never have the present history and culture and you wouldn't have your Duarte Gilmete name LOL. Your personal feeling don't change history.

[@capeverdeanprincess4444]

Portugal was under Morroccan rule as well. Don’t give the Portuguese that much credit. They(Portuguese colonizers) easily got taken over by North Africans and even today they and their Spaniard “hermanos” have the highest North African ancestry in Europe.

[@hythamtas2412]

You belong to my heart ❤️ my dear

[@ratxabadiu257]

0:55 its pronounced BadYYYu And there is not Bantu in Cape Verde language people who use bantu on the language is people that watch alot of Brazilian telenovelas or listen to alot of Kuduru Cape Verdean language is of NorthWest AfrIcan origin that being mainly Wolof and Mandinka. Other than that, great video !! Shout out to the channel The Root

[@johnice099]

So at the time of slavery all Cape Verdean slaves were badiu, there was no sampajudo, the term sampajudo was coined after the end of slavery and it is the inhabitants of santiago who populated all the others he is

[@ratxabadiu257]

@@johnice099 From what I know both terms came up around the same time, when the slaves were brougth up to cidade velha the ones that stayed were called Sampadjudo and the ones that left were caled Badiu.. then when the colonists start settling in Fogo island Badiu became the all Santiago Island and sampadjudo all the other ones except Maio

[@johnice099]

@@ratxabadiu257 we know the meaning of badio but not the meaning of sampajudos so it is not possible that the term sampajudos arrived at the same time, this word was added by the colonists after slavery to divide the Cape Verdean people and better control it. gave them more in advance and educated them the first school of Cape Verde was made in mindelo in 1903 it was not until the 1960s to see a school in Praia

[@ratxabadiu257]

@@johnice099 yes the term sampadjudo migth have come to existence later on. But I dont think this word was add up to divide I think both words sampadjudo and badiu just represented the social and ethnical reality of that time. Badiu were free men that escaped and didnt get no european mixture will sampadjudo did not escaped and majority had coloniser blood to an extent.. yes but mindelo got more developed because of the charcoal production not because they were sampadjudo I think...

[@johnice099]

@@ratxabadiu257 my brother there is not a single badios that is 100% African, even the darkest skin is mixed with European blood DNA tests prove it

[@mafrica8105]

It was not discorved by Portugeses STOP ssying that, Africans were already there, you are basically saying that

[@kill3611]

There weren't any inhabitants. Who cares who discovered CV. The thing is that the portuguese were the first to settle there.

[@gabedepina9331]

Damn I’m half cape verdian and she got the same last name as me

[@shalalala868]

Y’all are probably cousins

[@MultiSmartass1]

Actually the population of Cape Verde from what i understand is 70% plus mixed race and only over 20% African. Its also a vacation spot for vistors from Europe primarily. Yet the impression here is that Cape Verde is somehow like nations on the continent of Africa which isnt true. Cape Verde is African because of the coast of the continent but is primarily a mixed race country not unlike the Dominican Republic . That may be why a number of peoole from CV dont align with African Americans in the US.

[@Ozama1221]

Capo Verde is more mixedMulato... African Americans have more of connection to Ghana, Nigeria, and more importantly Liberia

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@jaxthewolf4572]

Kongo too

[@AfricanMaverick]

cabo verde have more of connection to guinea bissau than African Americans have connection to Ghana, Nigeria..

[@Ozama1221]

@@AfricanMaverick maybe culturally, but racially Cape Verdeans are more mixed than African Americans

[@glitbow7630]

Not if you descendants from Cape Verde and to America

[@savagegalla6561]

Y’all do know dey Took native Americans from Massachusetts to Cape Verde and the native Americans were black back then

[@savagegalla6561]

@@bryndonjraschaul-dunn1503 what’s getting old clown

[@williampolancos3673]

That’s pure BS. Like how many left? 2, 3, 4… a dozen or what? Dude you make it sound as if thousands and thousands of natives left the US and settled in CV.

[@savagegalla6561]

@@williampolancos3673 In 1501, the Portuguese began to depopulate the Beothuk Indians to Cape Verde as slaves. Black Indian slavery destroyed the Indian nations of Natchez, Yamasee, Pequots, and Mohegan Tribes.

[@savagegalla6561]

@@bryndonjraschaul-dunn1503 In 1501, the Portuguese began to depopulate the Beothuk Indians to Cape Verde as slaves. Black Indian slavery destroyed the Indian nations of Natchez, Yamasee, Pequots, and Mohegan Tribes.

[@savagegalla6561]

@@williampolancos3673 As early as 1636, after the Pequot War in which 300 Pequots were massacred, those who remained were sold into slavery and sent to Bermuda. Major slaving ports included Boston, Salem, Mobile, and New Orleans. From those ports, Native Americans (Indians) were shipped to Barbados by the English, Martinique, and Guadalupe by the French and the Antilles by the Dutch. Indian (Native American) slaves were also sent to the Bahamas as the “breaking grounds” where they might have been transported back to New York or Antigua. The Pequot War was an armed conflict between the Pequot Tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook Colonies and their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan Tribes) occurring between 1634 and 1638. The Pequot Tribe lost the war. In the end, about 700 Pequots were killed or taken into captivity. Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery in the West Indies; other survivors were dispersed.

[@ftnrbhmwk]

"By a group of explorers who were under the Portuguese flag" Why didn't she just say European colonizers.. Wow. Very watered down splaining...

[@claudiopereira8427]

bom trabadjo

[@Jmp2ba]

🙋🏾We CapeVerdeans are not Black. We are 78% mixed-race, 28% Black and 1% White. We are Africans, unless that's what you meant by "Black". African is not Synonym of Black 💪🇨🇻

[@vinnyrichardsduartegilmete3496]

There’s a convoluted attempt at defining the Cape Verdean identification experience - doesn’t serve to clarify anything. Cape Verdean immigrants were simply marginalized as a subset of large Africa descendant Americans (ADOS), and/or a subset of Afro-Centric PT akin to PR/DR type Caribbean or such ppl…. However CV’s are a variation of the binary plantation mentality color code: Criolo.

[@trillone87]

I CANT find traces of Africans in Cape Verde because your ancestors are the EXILED JEWS from Spain and Portugal. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@niltoncabral8230]

Cabo Verde was "discovered" in 1460 and not in 1465.

[@a.sanches610]

We are capeverdeans, that's all.

[@pedrosousa9780]

you belong from Africa and European portuguese, is that so dificult then read the history, not be afraid to say where you from because you are unique in the World because you're classify as new race.

[@keykeyjudahisraelita7620]

All she said is prophecy in the bible Deuteronomio 28:15-68

[@menoyb7749]

Bible my a**

[@keykeyjudahisraelita7620]

@@menoyb7749 Psalm 14 King James Version 14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

[@menoyb7749]

@@keykeyjudahisraelita7620 try another comic book, maybe the amazing fantasy, that may work. The one you are quoting I already read it. It is after all worst comic book I ever encountered. The main character (god) is worse than anything I heard off, it even makes the bad character (devil) look good

[@keykeyjudahisraelita7620]

@@menoyb7749 Isaiah 55:8-9 New King James Version 8 “For(A) My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For(B) as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

[@keykeyjudahisraelita7620]

@@menoyb7749 Romans 3:3-23 King James Version 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. I assume you are so call black and yes we are the real jews of the Bible you might read but you didn't understand

[@almamybokarbirobarry780]

How is from guinea bissau to cape verde

[@AfricanMaverick]

There is a musical instrument from Cape Verde called Cimboa, it's similar to the Fula Riti instrument. According to some the Riti instrument from Senegal is a more likely predecessor of the Cimboa.

[@alexBumann]

we consider them our brother on the continent, we are bests, our language is thé same

[@EventualReality]

😂 "separate yourself from the struggles of African Americans.." Wow!!!!!! Y'all were affected by the slave trade and though it may not have been to the extent of my people don't think you are better because you are "mixed."

[@melindasilveira5169]

A lot of the older generation think like that. They will tell you they’re Portuguese almost praising colonization smh.

[@capeverdeanprincess4444]

@@melindasilveira5169 No, you need to stop with that and educate yourself on the reason why they did that and stop putting other CV’s down . The older generation (mostly from brava, never heard an old person from Santiago say they are Portuguese) will say they are “Portuguese” because at the time they had Portuguese passports but in reality they are not Portuguese. Cape Verdeans now a days will pretend to be Brazilians. They are never proud to be African and we should be, we are African not Latin like Brazil or Portugal.

[@armandadeveigamonteiro8457]

🇨🇻 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻💕💪🏾

[@TJ-nq5nt]

It's where you born and rasie.

[@inesflores4948]

No we are criolo. Cape Verdean.

[@angrybritches1854]

"Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? To such extent you bleach, to get like the white man. Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet? Who taught you to hate your own kind? Who taught you to hate the race that you belong to so much so that you don't want to be around each other? No... Before you come asking Mr. Muhammad does he teach hate, you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what God made you." - The issue is, Africans either still on the continent or in the diaspora need to come to terms with, we are suffering from PTSD from Colonialism.

[@Ozama1221]

The main lady speaking in this video, is not black, she is mixed and looks more hispanic

[@AfricanMaverick]

she would be white in cabo verde

[@tronmiller2689]

lol they just showed up

[@lunabusinessmindset1773]

There was African in Cape Verde wen Portugal got there

[@user-ee6ru5hs6u]

You are so stupid. Learn Something from History before you Talk bullshit

[@EloisaP]

Where I don't agree is that there were no indigenous people in the Islands... I doubt that and of course I don't have any proof. But our history didn't start with slavery or colonialization....

[@beenbean3498]

They are African American not the black we love them but that’s the truth

[@russellstone1503]

They are Hebrew Israelites.

[@smavi4133]

Sure... Whatever floats your boat man

[@russellstone1503]

@@smavi4133 Glad you concur. Look up 'Israel Hill' to make a very long story short.

[@jaxthewolf4572]

@@russellstone1503 No one is an Israelite unless they come from the country Israel

[@infiniteg7852]

@@russellstone1503 from what tribe you thinking ?

[@ave383]

This is wrong. Cape verde was uninhabited and the first group of people to be brough their by the Spanish's and Portuguese a 100 years later were American Indians. Columbus kind napped thousands of Americans Indians and took them to Cabo Verde islands to circumvent the crown. What he was doing was actually illgigal. This is very well documented by the way. Most of the so called slaves of the trans atlantic slave trade were not Africans they were Americans Indians who were classified as negro. In fact if you look at the original documents and letters that the Jesuits wrote to the church they described the Americans negro as negros de terra and they described Africans as negros de guinea. They differentiated what they call the America negro from the Africans negro. On record it was negros from America that were taken to the cabo verde islands

[@terrygregg89]

It sounds like a bit of self-hatred. Black people from different parts of Africa don't like to acknowledge their blackness. Christ is black the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob is also black. But we love what the image of whiteness is. I don't know what to say about this interview really. You said that Cape verdeans don't like to assimilate with black Americans. That is very very sad and a bit racist as well. When you guys are black as well. When you come to America the white supremacy will label you as black. They're not going to smile at you until you wow you have Portuguese blood. No they going to say that you're black

[@glitbow7630]

They’re mixed not black that’s what they are

[@CandyKissama]

True. They're black

[@SHANNY13_96]

@@CandyKissama thanks let them know!!"

[@jamesvick6070]

​@@glitbow7630mixed is black plus colonization is the only reason why they're mixed In Cape Verde

[@glitbow7630]

@@jamesvick6070 mixed isn’t black what you’re saying doesn’t make any sense

[@777videos7777]

It was not DISCOVERED! Stop with the lies!

[@taniaanderson4089]

This is inaccurate