For our community report, we head to Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, an archipelago and island country in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Cape Verde culture is built on music, storytelling and food – the only ways enslaved people transported here could express themselves under Portuguese rule.

These days, islanders still sing as they work, strum the violao after dinner, and celebrate Carnival and saints’ fiestas with a West African flourish.

Abdullahi Hassan takes an in-depth look at the history and the amazing culture of these beautiful people.

Let’s listen.