Cape Verdean Guinea-Bissauan
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Cape Verdean Guinea-Bissauan are Guinea-Bissauan
residents whose ancestry originated in Cape Verde
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As of 2007, the Instituto das Comunidades (Institute of the Communities) estimated that there were 2,000 people of Cape Verdean descent living in Guinea Bissau. The majority of them lived in the capital city of Bissau
and could trace their Cape Verdean roots to the island of Santiago
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Guinea-Bissau
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....
residents whose ancestry originated in Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
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As of 2007, the Instituto das Comunidades (Institute of the Communities) estimated that there were 2,000 people of Cape Verdean descent living in Guinea Bissau. The majority of them lived in the capital city of Bissau
Bissau
Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. The city's borders are conterminous with the Bissau Autonomous Sector. In 2007, the city had an estimated population of 407,424 according to the Instituto Nacional de Estatística e Censos...
and could trace their Cape Verdean roots to the island of Santiago
Santiago, Cape Verde
Santiago , or Santiagu in Cape Verdean Creole, is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation’s population. At the time of Darwin's voyage it was called St. Jago....
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Notable Cape Verdean Guinea-Bissauan
The most recognized Cape Verdean Guinea-Bissauan include:- Amílcar CabralAmílcar CabralAmílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician. Also known by his nom de guerre Abel Djassi, Cabral led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence...
, led the movement for Cape Verdean independence - Luís CabralLuís CabralLuís Severino de Almeida Cabral was the first President of Guinea-Bissau. He served from 1974 to 1980, when a military coup d'état led by João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira deposed him...
, first president of Guinea-Bissau - Honório BarretoHonório BarretoHonório Pereira Barreto was a governor of the Portuguese colony of Guinea . Born in Guinea of a Guinean mother and Cape Verdean father, he maintained Portuguese control of the area and even extended its influence...
, governor of Guinea-Bissau - Carlos Lopes, assistant to Assistant Secretary-General and Director for Political Affairs in his Executive Office