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Old 12-15-2013, 02:23 AM
 
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Do you consider Cape Verde to be a North African island or a Southern European island?
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Old 12-15-2013, 04:22 AM
 
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Cape Verde is a west african country,you just need to look at the map
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Old 12-15-2013, 10:31 PM
 
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cape verde is right off the coast of senegal. Ill have you figure that one out lol...
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Old 12-16-2013, 12:53 AM
 
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That's right,since Senegal is a west african country.
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Old 12-16-2013, 01:00 PM
 
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In defense, Cape Verde is trying to join the European Union, so at least some subset of the population probably sees themselves as more European than African.

Plus everyone speaks Portuguese/Cape Verdean Creole, and no indigenous African languages. And virtually everyone is mixed race, although on average the mix is something like 58% African/42% European.

Nonetheless, it is geographically African. Just like the Canary Islands.
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Old 12-16-2013, 01:09 PM
 
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I believe about 25% of the country is straight African and I've even heard them refer to themselves as Africans. So, it appears that it is more in line with West Africa.
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Old 12-16-2013, 02:18 PM
 
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if Madagascar is considered an African Country then C.V. is too. The fact that there are Europeans there means nothing. That would be like South Africa Trying to join the European Union.
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Old 12-16-2013, 08:58 PM
 
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It's too far south to be part of Europe.
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Old 12-18-2013, 12:08 PM
 
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Cabo Verde is close to Senegal, so it is not part of Europe or North Africa, but West Africa.
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Old 12-18-2013, 12:10 PM
 
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And at one point, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau were trying to form a union after independence from Portugal. After the 1980 coup, plans for this ended. And if you go back even further in history, Cape Verde was colonized by Portugal, and then slaves from West Africa were brought over. Some West Africans and Portuguese mixed. Historically, there are more ties to West Africa than to North Africa.
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