An album of smooth guitar led tracks by the Cape Verdean musician. Includes a booklet of lyrics. 13 tracks, 58:36 mins, FRANCE. LUSAFRICA.

The Cape Verdean singer's second album in which she returns to her island roots. Features the genres of morna, coladera, mazurka and funana. 12 tracks, 47:53 mins, FRANCE. LUSAFRICA.

Recorded in 1980, this album of traditional Cape Verdian music is typical of the island of Sao Nicolau. 20 tracks, 71:39 mins, GERMANY.

1980 2004 Compact Disc

Inspired selection and presentation, the standard one can expect from the enterprising Putumayo label. 12 tracks, approx 52 mins, USA. PUTUMAYO WORLD MUSIC.

Employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what Cape Verdeans have to say about women's lives in the era of twenty-first century globalization. The authors investigate the economic and personal difficulties they face such as poverty, managing single mother-headed households, and violence. They also examine the ways women resist the challenges globalization has brought to them especially through cultural expressions of batuku dancing and Creole language. Index, bib, apps, tables, 208pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Fifth edition. Adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, one of the attractions of the Cape Verde islands is the watersports: surfing, windsurfing, diving and fishing. Travellers are also lured to the islands by the promise of scenic hikes around the dramatic terrain of these volcanic outcrops, including the climb up the Pico de Fogo volcanic cone. Many off-the-beaten-track highlights are provided to help explorers discover the hidden treasures of this magical archipelago, from beautiful bays with whaling history and beaches teeming with turtles to botanical gardens and cobbled paths leading to summits high above sea level. Col photos, maps, 336pp, UK. BRADT.

Compilation that shows that there is much more to Cape Verde's music than Cesaria Evora, the internationally celebrated diva. 17 tracks, over 76mins playing time, UK.

First hand description of the experience of the Cape Verde islands before and after independence. Focuses on the successes of the islands' development experiment. 221pp, UK. HUTCHINSON.

First English translation. Señor da Silva successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self made businessman. Born an orphan, he never married, he never splurged one good suit was good enough for him and he never wandered from the straight and narrow. Or so everyone thought. But when his 387 page Last Will and Testament is read aloud a marathon task on a hot afternoon which exhausts reader there's eye opening news, and not just for the smug nephew so certain of inheriting all Señor da Silva's property. This will is a web of elaborate self deceptions. Selected as one of Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. 152pp, USA. NEW DIRECTIONS.

A new name in 'morna', the bewitching music of Cape Verde, brought to prominence by Cesaria Evoria. 9 tracks, 46:26mins, FRANCE. PLAYA SOUND.

13 tracks: Bida Mariadu, Ponciana, Romaria [Pilgrimage], No Bem Falá [Let's Talk About Them], As-gua [Rainy Season], Es Anu Raboitas Ka di Fiansa [This Year, You Can't Trust Upheavals], M'Bem di Fora [(I've Come from Far Away)], Mari d'Ascenson, Galanton [Smooth Talker], Pensá Drêt [Think Carefully], Festa di Nha Kumpadri [My Friend's Party], Choro and Fitiço di Funana [The Enchantment of the Funana]. FRANCE. LUSAFRICA.

Poems from the Lusophone modernist poet who was born in Cape Verde, served as a judge in Angola and as Cape Verde's ambassador to Portugal. Translated from the Cape Verdean Creole by Daniel Hahn and Sean O'Brien. 29pp, UK. ENITHARMON PRESS.

New songs from the barefoot diva from Cape Verde who recently sold out the Royal Festival Hall. Includes booklet with lyrics in Portuguese and notes in French. 15 tracks, approx 64 mins. FRANCE.

2001 Compact Disc

An album of fresh melodies and beautiful harmonies from Cape Verde. 13 tracks, 58:09 mins, PORTUGAL. ,