of Cape Verdean people and language; the publication of the book of poems by António Pedro, named Diário (1929); the hidden speech among the founders of Claridade; the publication of Jorge Barbosa's book, Arquipélago (1935), which opened the door to modern Cape Verdean literature, demonstrated a complete change in rhetoric and thematic poetry of Cape Verde. With regard to the exogenous elements, the following are highlighted: the personal presence of some Portuguese writers in Cape Verde in late 1920 and early 1930, including Augusto Casimiro, António Pedro and José Osório de Oliveira; the Portuguese magazine, named Presença, published in 1927 in Coimbra; the Brazilian modern literature and Northeast realism. is title is inspired by Clarity, a book by Henri Barbusse, then a review and pacifist group animated by the latte Publication history and contents Claridade's articles were written in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. Nine numbered issues appeared between 1936 and 1960. They can be divided into two distinct periods, with an interval of a decade, due to financial difficulties and the dispersal of members of the group throughout the islands. The first three issues, published on March and August 1936 and March 1937, were written almost exclusively by the founders, while the works of the remaining seven, that took place between 1947 and 1960 (fourth issue in January 1947, fifth issue later in September, sixth in July 1948, seventh in December 1949, eighth in May 1958 and the last in December 1960), were primarily conducted by Baltasar da Silva, because during this period, Jorge Barbosa had been stationary on the Island of Sal, and Manuel Lopes was already on Faial Island, Azores, where he had been transferred to, as a Western Telegraph operator. The first issue of Claridade presented three poetic texts of oral tradition in Creole – Lantuna & 2 reasons of finaçom (finaçõm being a drum musical style from the Island of Santiago). The second issue had the morna () called Vénus by Francisco Xavier da Cruz of São Vicente, better known as B. Leza, and other literary and cultural articles also in Portuguese. The remaining issues, predominantly in the Cape Verdean language, featured finaçom and batucu, the poetic folklore of Santiago, and Ana Procópio's songs of the Island of Fogo; the novelistic folklore of the Islands of São Nicolau and Santo Antão; ethnographic studies of peoples from Santiago and Fogo; and studies on the social structure