Word: verdean
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Mayes anecdotally addressed the problems some immigrants from the West African island nation of Cape Verde encounter when they arrive in the Boston area. He suggested that cultural problems of integration contributed to recent violence in Boston’s Cape Verdean community...
Randy Gomes is also from Plymouth Mass., but the town’s large Cape Verdean population makes Gomes a common name there...
...fact, the program recently expanded to offer services to the burgeoning Portuguese-speaking Brazilian and Cape Verdean communities...
...says he's a drunk, one says he and Captain Haddock, his companion, are lovers, and several claim the author, Herge, was a Nazi." Vaux is currently translating TinTin into a number of endangered languages--Singaporean English, Calypso (an English-based Creole spoken on St. Thomas), and Cape Verdean...
...newest release, Onda Sonora (Portuguese for sound wave), explores similar territory. It's a challenging album that offers peformances by Veloso, k.d. lang, Cape Verdean singer Lura as well as the enchanting sound of Fado--a kind of Portuguese folk-blues. Next up: a CD featuring R.-and-B. stars tackling the music of Duke Ellington. Looks as if Red Hot will stay that way for a long time...