Cape Verde, let's go: Creole rappers and citizenship in Portugal - 57

Musicians rapping in Kriolu - a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde - have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery.

They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the Kriolu language but its culture and history.

Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, this work introduces Lisbon's Kriolu rap scene and the role of rap music in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities.