History of Cape Verde

Navigators in the service of the Portuguese crown, at the beginning of the adventure of discovery, arrived in Cabo Verde in 1456. However, without solid evidence, there are indications that other peoples (Romans, Carthaginians, Phoenicians, Arabs) would have become aware of 'archipelago and could be landed on the islands then deserted centuries before their actual discovery. In fact, considering the prevailing winds and ocean currents in the region, it can be assumed that the islands may have been visited by fishermen Wolof, Serer or Lebu, the coast of Guinea.
The Portuguese explorer Jaime Cortesão narrated the story of the visit of the Arabs to an island called "Aulil" or "Ulil", where salt was mined from natural salt.
About six years after their discovery began populating the islands by the Portuguese, who made it a colony and founded Ribeira Grande, the current Cidade Velha on the island of Sao Tiago, before colonial African cities.
Their strategic location makes it the archipelago a focal point and a perfect base for the docking of ships traveling between Europe and America and soon became a center of high importance for trade and the lucrative trafficking of men towards Americas involving especially the peoples of New Guinea thus leading to the emergence of a mestizo people with its own culture fertilized by many others. Europeans and free slaves on the African coast merged into a single people with a way of being and living their own, while the dialect, the "Creole", indicated the main theme of the new nation. It is so living side by side and pestle African millstone European Union, the African drum and the triangle Portuguese "banco de Ouri" played by all.
Since its discovery in fact the people of Cape Verdean accepted its unique identity in the world of people predominantly mestizo, just think that the population is divided into 90% mestizo, Negro 7% and 3% white.
Aware of this peculiarity and distance of about 500 years between various vicissitudes more or less serious, including one reminiscent of droughts, in particular the first historically documented occurred in 1747 when the Portuguese government, then "administrator" of the various islands, not sent any help, the abolition of slavery in 1875, which made him lose interest and importance to the archipelago, and a massive emigration of the population in the nineteenth century to the coasts of New England (America), the Cape Verdean people starts Also look for a new identity policy that achieved with the National Independence on July 5, 1975 after a long struggle for liberation from the domination Lusitanian. On 16 September of that year he was officially admitted as a member of the United Nations and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was officially the government of Guinea-Bissau is that Cape Verde discussing the possibility of joining the two countries in one state, opportunities that vanishes in 1980 after a coup in Guinea-Bissau and that he officially separere Cape Verdeans from the PAIGC in 1981 to found the African Party of Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV).
The first democratic elections date back to 1991 when it finally instituted a multiparty democratic system and in 2007 was excluded from the list of LDCs drawn up by the UN.
Today Cape Verde is a country with a future that inspires security, stability and social peace and has enviable indices compared to the African continent as far as the health system, education and quality of life (fourth country in Africa).