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CAPE VERDE

Bec
2004-09-18 19:34:56

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Praia
On the the flight I met Christelle, a French girl from Paris coming to visit to her boyfriend Oumar who gave me a lift from the airport to my hotel, the Paraiso.

Praia is a small town of only 65,000 people and Amilcar Cabral Avenue, the biggest street in town, is less than one km long.

The people speak Portuguese and Crioulo. More than 80 percent are Roman Catholic and the Church enjoys considerable secular power and wealth. This is Praia's Cathedral.

The US embassy has also become an important seat of power in Cape Verde since it gained independence from Portugal after one of the longest and most brutal liberation wars of Africa. Cape Verde is basically a poor country with little natural resources and an arid climate but its strategic position off the coast of Africa warrants considerable economic aid from the United States.

Cape Verde is not self-sufficient in food production. It is the largest recipient of U.S. grain grants in Africa. The rate of emigration is high and there are now more people of Cape Verde origin outside of the country that in it. Thanks to this foreign aid and to the remittances of expatriated Cape Verdans, the remaining population enjoys the highest standard of living of West Africa.

Praia Mar beach and Clube Nautica with the capital visible on the plateau in the background.

Cape Verde's islands offer several such beaches exposed to cloudless skies all year-round but development of the tourist industry is just beginning and mostly on Sal island thanks to the international refueling airport located there. Considering the paucity of other resources the sun trade could become the major real income earner of the country if it is developed correctly.

Săo Tiago
Getting visas is always a pain in the butt so it took advantage of my passage here to get visas for the Ivory Coast, Burkina ...

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