Is Cape Verde North Africa or Southern Europe? (country, speak, cons)

[Iber-Colchis]

Do you consider Cape Verde to be a North African island or a Southern European island?

[scobby]

Cape Verde is a west african country,you just need to look at the map

[mas23]

cape verde is right off the coast of senegal. Ill have you figure that one out lol...

[scobby]

That's right,since Senegal is a west african country.

[eschaton]

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.

[ckhthankgod]

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.

[mas23]

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.

[gwillyfromphilly]

It's too far south to be part of Europe.

[green_mariner]

Cabo Verde is close to Senegal, so it is not part of Europe or North Africa, but West Africa.

[green_mariner]

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.