Cape Verde gained independence in 1975, to go on to embrace liberal democracy in 1991, being considered an example in Africa, in terms of democracy and good governance. However, following the post-2008 world demonstrations, several types of public protests took place in the country's capital, led by young urban protagonists. These protests overlapped with a set of situations denounced by various academic studies and reports: situations of strangulation of the civil society resulting from the bi-partisanization of social life; rising awareness of urban insecurity and a generalized wave of corruption; mistrust of citizens in relation to public and political institutions; commodification of the vote; ambiguous relationship between political party activists and youth armed groups in the electoral period; denunciations of financing of national drug trafficking factions to political parties, etc. This article is based on a set of ethnographic research carried out since 2008 among urban youth in Cidade da Praia. My goal is to analyze the context of the emergence of these new types of social and political protests organized in youth groups who call themselves the children and grandchildren of Amílcar Cabral. Supported by counter-colonial discourses, they groups call for a second liberation and (re)Africanization of [capeverdians] spirits and minds. Keywords: Social movements, youth, identity policies, Cape Verde
