Dulce Almada Duarte

Maria Dulce de Oliveira Almada Duarte , or Dulce Almada Duarte for short , (* 1933 in São Vicente , Cape Verde ) is a Cape Verdean linguist and former resistance fighter of the PAIGC .

Life

Youth and education

Dulce Alamda Duarte was born in 1933 on the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde. After finishing school, Duarte studied Romance languages at the University of Coimbra . In the university environment, she also met the burgeoning ideas of anti-colonialism and soon afterwards joined the liberation struggle in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.

Fight underground

Duarte returned to Cape Verde in 1959, but only stayed there for a short time. Since it was not possible to travel directly to Guinea-Bissau (without being picked up by the PIDE ), Duarte first went to France, where she lectured at the University of Caen . Later she went via Algeria and Morocco to Senegal and Guinea, where she joined the PAIGC directly.

Duarte performed a wide variety of tasks in the struggle for independence. She herself explained in a radio interview that she u. a. Produced radio programs in Portuguese to demoralize the colonial troops and in Creole to support the resistance fighters, published numerous articles for the PAIGC magazine Libertação , wrote school books, gave lessons and translated Amílcar Cabral's main work into French. Her future husband Abílio Duarte , senior management of the PAIGC , also worked on it .

After independence

After Cape Verde gained independence, she worked in numerous different government agencies, including in the Ministry of Education and Culture as head of the cultural department and head of the Cape Verde monuments authority.

Later she focused more on her original discipline of Romance studies and linguistics and published numerous works on Cape Verdean Creole . According to her own statement, she campaigns for the officialization (and writing) of the Cape Verdean Creole.

Today she lives in Belo Horizonte (Brazil).

Works (selection)

Bilinguismo or diglossia? , Praia: Spleen Edições (1998)
De Cabo Verde às Américas: a África reelaborada , in: Anais , Vol. I, No. 3, pp. 19–31 (1999)

Individual evidence

^ Dulce Almada Duarte - uma combatente pela libertação da Guiné e Cabo Verde. Rádio Vaticano, January 24, 2013, accessed October 3, 2016 (Portuguese).
↑ Richard Andrew Lobban Jr., Peter Karibe Mendy: Historial Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (= African Historial Dictionaries . No. 22 ). 3. Edition. The Scarerow Press, Lanham MD / London 1997, ISBN 0-8108-3226-7 , pp. 136 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Duarte, Dulce Almada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Duarte, Maria Dulce de Oliveira Almada (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cape Verdean linguist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sao Vicente , Cape Verde

[1] Dulce Almada Duarte - uma combatente pela libertação da Guiné e Cabo Verde. Rádio Vaticano, January 24, 2013, accessed October 3, 2016 (Portuguese).

[Dictionary-2] Richard Andrew Lobban Jr., Peter Karibe Mendy: Historial Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (= African Historial Dictionaries . No. 22 ). 3. Edition. The Scarerow Press, Lanham MD / London 1997, ISBN 0-8108-3226-7 , pp. 136 f .