Government decreed two days of mourning for Corsino Fortes – The Ball

The Cape Verde government declared two days of mourning for Corsino Fortes, poet, writer, Homeland freedom fighter, “unique figure” of the world of culture, literature and the academy.

Corsino António Fortes was born in São Vicente in 1933. Graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon in 1966, he pursued his professional activity in the Judiciary in Angola, where he was Judge of the Labour Court of Benguela.

Combatants of the Homeland Freedom, actively campaigned in favor of the Independence of Cape Verde, in hiding, while still held the judiciary in Angola.

After independence, Corsino Fortes exercised diplomacy, having was the first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Cape Verde in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Norway and Iceland between 1975 and 1981. In Angola, was ambassador from 1986 to 1989 performing similar function in Sao Tome and Principe, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

He played the Secretary of State’s office for information from 1983 to 1989 and was the television prosecutor in Cape Verde with the creation of so TVEC and was Minister of Justice from 1989 to 1991.

As a poet, he published the trilogy The Bald Head of God (2001), composed of books “Bread & amp; Phoneme ‘,’ Tree & amp; Drum “,” Stones Sun & amp; Substance “, and” silent bells, songs & amp; Haiku “(2015).

presided at the Amílcar Cabral Foundation General Council, the Association of Cape Verdean Writers (AEC) as well as the Cape Verdean Academy of Letters.
                 

                      Daniel Almeida, Cape Verde