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Jurist and writer, Ambassador Jorge Tolentino is a member of the Cape Verdean Academy of Letters and the Cape Verdean Society of Authors.
Since the 1970s, he has contributed to various national and international periodicals and is featured in several anthologies. He was the winner of the National Literary Competition for the 5th anniversary of Cape Verde's Independence (1980).
He published several works, including: Human Rights or a Certain Longing for the Future (1999); Citizenship and Freedom – Words I Wrote (2005); Times of Uncertainty (2016); Mascarenhas Monteiro – The Discreet Craftsman (2017); United States of America and Cape Verde – A Historical and Strategic Partnership (2019); Teixeira de Sousa, an Island of Causes (2022).
He held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A diplomat at the Cape Verdean Mission to the UN in New York, he was a Delegate to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. He was an Advisor to the President of the Republic and also Ambassador of Cape Verde to Germany, Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Spain. In a total of approximately ten years, he held several government positions.
He was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service, 1st Class (Cape Verde) and the Order of Naval Merit, Grand Officer Grade (Brazil).
While seemingly fragmented or diffuse, the texts included in this book actually reflect a quest to understand Cape Verde and the world.
Sometimes these are texts prepared for conferences or contexts of equivalent formality or refinement, sometimes they are reflections on the presentation of works by other authors, here and there they take the form of critical approaches to areas of sovereignty in which the author had responsibilities as a government official (Foreign Affairs, National Defense), and often they are records, within the framework of the exercise of citizenship, about facts or omissions of and in the Republic, as well as about one or another issue under debate in society.
Publisher: Rosa de Porcelana
Publication date: May 2025
Book Format: Paperback
Print length: 462 pages
Language: Portuguese
Jurist and writer, Ambassador Jorge Tolentino is a member of the Cape Verdean Academy of Letters and the Cape Verdean Society of Authors.
Since the 1970s, he has contributed to various national and international periodicals and is featured in several anthologies. He was the winner of the National Literary Competition for the 5th anniversary of Cape Verde's Independence (1980).
He published several works, including: Human Rights or a Certain Longing for the Future (1999); Citizenship and Freedom – Words I Wrote (2005); Times of Uncertainty (2016); Mascarenhas Monteiro – The Discreet Craftsman (2017); United States of America and Cape Verde – A Historical and Strategic Partnership (2019); Teixeira de Sousa, an Island of Causes (2022).
He held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A diplomat at the Cape Verdean Mission to the UN in New York, he was a Delegate to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. He was an Advisor to the President of the Republic and also Ambassador of Cape Verde to Germany, Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Spain. In a total of approximately ten years, he held several government positions.
He was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service, 1st Class (Cape Verde) and the Order of Naval Merit, Grand Officer Grade (Brazil).
While seemingly fragmented or diffuse, the texts included in this book actually reflect a quest to understand Cape Verde and the world.
Sometimes these are texts prepared for conferences or contexts of equivalent formality or refinement, sometimes they are reflections on the presentation of works by other authors, here and there they take the form of critical approaches to areas of sovereignty in which the author had responsibilities as a government official (Foreign Affairs, National Defense), and often they are records, within the framework of the exercise of citizenship, about facts or omissions of and in the Republic, as well as about one or another issue under debate in society.
Publisher: Rosa de Porcelana
Publication date: May 2025
Book Format: Paperback
Print length: 462 pages
Language: Portuguese