The New Cabo Verde Southern California News Team

The New Kids in the Radio Station

You are looking at the new Cabo Verde American News Team.  These are the kids that covered the Pan AFrican Film Festival.  This team had an exclusive interview with Dr. Claire Andrade Watkins.  Dr. Andrade Watkins talked about her new film, "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?".

Our goal is to grow more Cabo Verde and other news team all around the world.  If you have a team or want to start a team visit our websites and send us an e-mail.

Bob Barboza
(594-8580 Office
E-Mail: Suprschool@aol.com

www.KidsTalkRadioLA.com (Los Angeles Station)

http://KidsTalkRadio.PNN.com (San Francisco Station)

Cabo Verde

The Kid's Talk Radio teachers and students are reaching out to teachers and students on the Cabo Verde Islands.  This is our way of adopting a country.  We want to know all about the wonderful people on Cabo Verde.  Our main goal is to share stories and music.  PNN is all set up to allow the Cabo Verde students to communicate with the American students free of charge.  We want to do what ever we can to make it possible for the students on the Cabo Verde Islands to communicate with the teachers and students in the Kid's Talk Radio Project 100 Grant Program.  We are not going to stop with the Cabo Verde Islands.  We have our eyes set on Portugal and Brazil.  Bob Barboza has plans to eventual include of the Portuguese speaking countries.

More about Cabo Verde
 
Cape Verde is a small nation that lacks resources and has experienced severe droughts. Agriculture is made difficult by lack of rain, and is restricted to only four islands for most of the year. Most of the nation's GDP comes from the service industry. Cape Verde's economy has grown since the late 1990s, and it is now considered a country of average development.
 
Cape Verde has been on the list of the United Nations Small Island Developing States, and Least Developed Countries.

In 2007 the United Nations graduated Cape Verde from the category of Least Developed Countries, only the second time this has happened to a country.

More Cape Verdeans live abroad than in Cape Verde, with significant emigrant Cape Verdean communities in the United States (500,000 Cape Verdeans), Portugal (80,000) and Angola (45,000). There are also significant number of Cape Verdeans in So Tom and Prncipe, Senegal, France, Brazil and the Netherlands. Cape Verdean populations also settled Spain, Germany, and other CPLP countries (Brazil and Guinea-Bissau).

Kid's Talk Radio is going to share stories with Cape Verdean students and teachers from around the world.

More on Cape Verde

Learning Portuguese
 
If you are up for a wonderful learning experience, try learning Portuguese with us at Super School University.
 
Cape Verde's official language is Portuguese. It is the language of instruction and official acts. However, the Cape Verdean Creole is used colloquially. It is a dialect continuum of a Portuguese-based creole, which varies from island to island.  This will be a challenge for our Kid's Talk Radio teachers and students.  We have plans on working on creative ways to translate our stories and educational projects.

There is a substantial body of literature in Creole, especially in the Santiago Creole and the So Vicente Creole. Creole has been gaining prestige since the nation's independence from Portugal.  PNN will help in this area.  We have plans for working with both adults and children.  We want to do all that we can to capture the stories of these wonderful people who love to talk and share their experiences.

However, the differences between the different forms of the language within the islands, have been a major obstacle in the way of standardization of the language. Some people have advocated the development of two standards: a North (Barlavento) standard, centered on the So Vicente Creole, and a South (Sotavento) standard, centered on the Santiago Creole.  We will keep you informed as we collaborate with the teachers on these islands.

Cabo Verde Culture
The culture of Cape Verde reflects its mixed African and Portuguese roots. It is well known for its diverse forms of music such as Morna and the urban Angolan kizomba, and a wide variety of dances: the soft dance Morna, and its modernized version, passada, the Funan - a sensual mixed Portuguese and African dance, the extreme sensuality of coladeira, and the Batuque dance. These are reflective of the diverse origins of Cape Verde's residents. The term "Cabo" is used to refer to residents as well as the culture of Cape Verde.

We welcome your questions about this exciting new Kid's Talk Radio Project.

Information: Suprschool@aol.com