Archival footage of Cape Verde 🇨🇻 in the 80s. In the early 80s dance in Cape Verde was more than celebration it was identity. Funana is a fast high energy musical and dance style from Santiago in Cape Verde driven by accordion and ferrinho rhythms and once suppressed during colonial rule. Funana once restricted during colonial rule burst into public life after independence carrying an urgent accordion driven energy from the rural heart of Santiago. Across the islands people moved between the s