A Guinean affiliation based mostly within the neighbourhood of Alto da Glória on the outskirts of the capital of Cabo Verde, Praia, is working exhausting to maintain the tradition and traditions of their dwelling nation alive.
Older members of the cultural affiliation, Cabaz di Terra, are instructing their youngsters concerning the track, dance, and poetry of Guinea-Bissau.
They imagine it is vital that the younger individuals born in Cape Verde perceive the tradition of the nation their households come from.
‘They’ve by no means been to Guinea-Bissau and do not know what it’s like. By means of the affiliation they’ve heard about our dwelling nation, they see how they dance, hear how they sing, they maintain that tradition alive. We do not need to lose sight of that tradition,’ says the affiliation’s secretary, Carlos Djasi.
Guineans are the most important neighborhood of foreigners residing in Cape Verde, and like most of his fellow countrymen, Diasi’s youngsters have by no means been to Guinea-Bissau.
Protecting the traditions alive
Twelve-year-old Nayara Mané was born in Cape Verde and has by no means recognized her mother and father’ land, however she will sing and dance as if she had at all times lived there, because of the dedication of the affiliation’s elders.
‘Right here I study our historical past,’ she says after reciting the poem ‘Cabaz di Terra’, though she confesses that she prefers singing and dancing.
Veracia Nhanco, 13, got here to Praia together with her mother and father simply 4 years in the past. She practiced conventional dance in Bissau and has continued with it by the affiliation.
Shaped in 2013, the affiliation within the casual neighbourhood provides Guineans the chance to ‘return’ to their roots each week, even when for just a few hours, and within the course of, go on their tradition and traditions to the youthful era.
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