MINDELO, SAO
VINCENTE ISLAND, CAPE VERDE
APRIL 15-16,
2014
First
discovered in the 1450’s, Sao Vicente was uninhabited until the eighteenth
century, when the Portuguese built a colony here, which grew as a provisioning
station for ships crossing the Atlantic for slave trade. After a hundred-year drought devastated the
island and most of its inhabitants died or immigrated, the British formed a
colony in Mindelo in the nineteenth century and used it as a coal station at
the height of the steam ship era. Now, the population, speakers of a local
Creole that combines Portuguese and several African languages, make their
living by fishing and the tourist trade.
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Panorama from island's highest point
On tour we visited a middle school
Talking with children
Eel at market for sale
Houses in fishing village
Child in the fishing village
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