Digital HD file, 16:9, 10 minutes and 26 seconds, sound
Displays neologisms aimed at enriching the vocabulary of the substratum Creole language of Cape Verde, spoken informally by the majority of the population across the islands, where I was born and later lived and worked for several years. The neologisms are derived from the names of Portuguese colonial administrators and characters from Greek mythology, and their meanings propose parallels between Cape Verde’s Portuguese colonial past and the post-independence social dynamics that have emerged since 1990, following the end of a single-party Marxist regime.
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