This study is a brief introduction to the oral nature of the literatures from Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe. Though different in outcomes—because of their shared (pre)-history, both African and both European in nature—the literary production that sprung from these two archipelagos share a distinctively Portuguese-Creole/Afro-Portuguese aspect, linguistically as well as culturally, one that sets them apart from the rest of the Lusophone African countries, namely, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, though obviously sharing with them many cultural and linguistic aspects, Portuguese as well as (pan)-African. Joseph Abraham Levi