ABSTRACT
Cape Verde appears in the social memory and practices of cape verdeans as a territory crossed and sewn by mobilities to other territories, from Europe, the Americas and Africa. Of the various possible territories, São Tomé and Princípe was and continues to be narrated as an unthinkable territory. The many narratives elaborated on the cape verdeans in São Tomé and Princípe, both those who experienced the event of hired labor and the descendants of this atrocious experience, were inscribed in a derogatory key. If, on the one hand, the cape verdean migration to São Tomé e Príncipe farmsteams disturbs and stresses the heated debates about cape verdean identity, and the portrait of the “silenced black past” has been chosen, creating in this process of producing truths, attemps to silence lives and narratives that do not matter. In refusal, this coletive shows how, in its daily life, creates multiple counter-narratives, signaling not only that it does not fit in this history narrates, but also lives were built. The culinary arts are also onde of those places were such counter-narratives are elaborated.
KEYWORDS:
Mobilities; counter-narratives; culinary arts; Cape Verde; São Tomé and Princípe