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Sara Tavares

The Slang and Authenticity of a Diaspora: Sara Tavares Finds the Voice of a New Generation of Africans in Lisbon. “There is a big, big generation of Cape Verdeans and other Africans here in Lisbon, in Paris, in Boston, all over… with a kind of messed-up identity,” says Lisbon’s twenty-seven year old Sara Tavares, who releases Balancê on World Connection on February 13th, 2006. “Our generation feels very lost because there is no culture specifically for us; that talks about our reality.”

“When I walk around with my friends, it’s a very, very interesting community,” Tavares explains. “We speak Portuguese slang, Angolan slang, some words in Cape Verdean Crioulo, and of course some English. In Crioulo there are already English and French words...

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