Eugénio de Paula Tavares was a Cape Verdean poet. He is known through his famous poems (mornas), mostly written in the Creole of Brava.
Eugénio Tavares
Mornas, Luanda, 1969
Eugénio Tavares on a Cape Verdean $2000 escudo note issued between 2007 and 2014
Obverse of the $2000 escudo note featuring a great morna poem of his
Brava is an island in Cape Verde, in the Sotavento group. At 62.5 km2 (24.1 sq mi), it is the smallest inhabited island of the Cape Verde archipelago, but at the same time the greenest. First settled in the early 16th century, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo erupted in 1680. For more than a century, its main industry was whaling, but the island economy is now primarily agricultural.
The uninhabited islets Ilhéus Secos or Ilhéus do Rombo with parts of the town of Nova Sintra.
Nova Sintra
A monument to Eugênio Tavares
"Aluguer" bus in the village Nossa Senhora do Monte.