Ovídio de Sousa Martins (September 17, 1928 in Mindelo, São Vicente – April 29, 1999 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a famous Cape Verdeanpoet and journalist. He attended high school in his home country, he went to pursue studies in Portugal[1] and did not achieve studies for health reasons.[2] He was one of the founders of the Cultural Supplement Bulletin of Cape Verde in 1958.[1] He lived in exile in the Netherlands due to his pro-independence activities in his native land and produced 100 poems there.
Liberdade, Nôs morte, Hora nô ta bá junte, Cantá nha pove, Cretcheu, Um spada na mon, Comparaçon, Consciénça, Um r’bêra pa mar, Dstine, Ma de canal, Pescador, Cantáme.
^ ab"Biografski dodaci" [Biographic appendices]. Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) (in Serbo-Croatian). XXXIV (12). Zagreb, SR Croatia: 1424–1427. December 1978.
Richard Lobban and Paul Khalil Saucier, "Ovidio Martins" in Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde, Lanham, Md; Toronto; Plymouth, UK, Scarecrow Press, 2007, p. 146 ISBN9780810849068