‘Now the flag is everywhere’: how World Cup success has changed life in Cape Verde

The Blue Sharks will become the smallest nation in history to play a knockout match at the World Cup when they face Argentina on Friday The Festival da Gamboa is the largest music festival on Santiago Island, Cape Verde. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the small stretch of beach, nestled at the foot of the plateau of Praia, has been transformed for a weekend from the home of a dozen or so fishing boats to one of the country’s biggest shindigs, attracting thousands of partygoers. It has staged some of Cape Verde’s greatest musicians playing the rhythms of mornas , funaná , coladeira , b

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