Cape Verde Lectures

The Ambassador from the island nation of Cape Verde to United States, Maria de Fatima Lima da Veiga, will be the guest of the UGA African Studies Institute on April 4 and 5 to deliver a series of lectures and meet with faculty and students. The African Studies institute would like to highlight two public lectures in particular to be given by the ambassador:

On April 4 at 5 p.m. in room 480 of the Tate Center, she’ll deliver a lecture titled “International Relations and African Diaspora: The Case of Cape Verde.”

On April 5 at 8 a.m., also in room 480 Tate, she will be the keynote speaker at the Global Education Forum and will deliver a lecture titled “Education, Sports & Development in Cape Verde.”

Cape Verde is comprised of an archipelago of 10 islands in the Central Atlantic Ocean, some 570 kilometers from the coast of Western Africa, per Wikipedia. Colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century, the islands have seen a remarkably eventful history, from the Atlantic slave trade to a Darwin expedition in 1832. It's highly literate population (85%) of 500,000 is characterized by a creole ethnicity, a quarter of whom live in the capital of Praia.

UGA welcomes Ambassador Lima de Veiga to our campus. The lectures are free and open to the public.