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Colonial famines, archives, and silencing: Colonial Portugal and the (necro)politics of life

The famine was, like José Vicente Lopes says, “Cape Verde`s holocaust”. The Portuguese colonial regime orchestrated this horrific crime by abandoning the islanders in various ways, even preventing them from implementing survival strategies. For example, it prohibited boats loaded with food sent by the Cape Verdean diaspora to help the starving people, to reach their destination.

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19.02.2026 | by Apolo de Carvalho