Henrique Teixeira de Sousa

Henrique Teixeira de Sousa (September 19, 1919 in São Lourenço on the island of Fogo – March 3, 2006) was a doctor and author from Cape Verde.

Biography Teixeira de Sousa graduated in 1945 in Lisbon with a degree in Medicine, having attended in the following year the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Porto. He later specialized in nutrition and initially went to East Timor to work as a doctor there. Teixeira de Sousa settled on his natal island of Fogo the following year, where he had an important role in maintaining minimal structures of public health. Later on, he worked on the island of São Vicente, until he emigrated shortly before the independence of the archipelago from Portugal, and moved to Oeiras, Portugal, where he lived until his death in 2006.

Teixeira de Sousa wrote fiction, including novels, and was a pupil of Baltasar Lopes da Silva. He was a member of the Claridoso Movement, associated with the Claridade magazine. He is one of the icons of Cape Verde literature, together with other names such as Manuel Lopes, Eugénio Tavares and Jorge Barbosa.

In one of his article, it analysed the social structure of Fogo, his native islands, both in his novels and in his essays, showed the concern of white families with the rise of the mixed in the late 1940s, they feared the moment that "the blacks would be pushed out of the funco; would take the place with the mixed in the loja and the latter would put the Whites in the sobrado."

Teixeira de Sousa was also the mayor of Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente, in the 1960s.

Legacy A high school (lyceum) in the city of São Filipe on his native island is named after him. Capitão de Mar e Terra [Captain of Sea and Land] (1984) Xaguate (1987) - second of a trilogy Djunga (1990) Na Ribeira de Deus (1992) - third of a trilogy Entre duas Bandeiras [Between Two Flags] (1994) Ó Mar de Túrbidas Vagas (2005)