Caetano da Costa Alegre

Caetano da Costa Alegre (* April 26, 1864, † April 18, 1890 ) was a Portuguese poet saotomensischer origin.

In the Portuguese colony of São Tomé born off the African coast in Cape Verde Creole family, he settled down in 1882 in Portugal. He attended the School of Medicine in Lisbon with the intention of becoming a Navy doctor; However, he died of tuberculosis before the fulfillment of this dream.

1916 published his friend, the journalist Cruz Magalhãez, the poetry, the Costa Alegre had written in Portugal during his eight years. The piece, written in the popular style romantizistischen his time was an immediate success, not least because of the way in which it celebrated its African origin and the longing for home São Tomé put it, but also because the description of the feeling of alienation based on race. He expresses his sorrow from following the rejection by a white woman because of his skin color, one of the earliest attempts of an African author on the subject of racial differences.

Although Costa Alegre style is European, it makes his work the forerunner of later African authors who dealt with the issues of race, alienation and nostalgic references to the past ( in his case, his memories of São Tomé ).

• Literature ( Portuguese)
• Person (São Tomé and Príncipe )
• Born in 1864
• Died in 1890
• Man