title: 1953 in Cape Verde
text: # 1953 in Cape Verde
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1953 in Cape Verde.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Colonial governor:
     * Carlos Alberto Garcia Alves Roçadas
     * Manuel Marques de Abrantes Amaral
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Académica do Mindelo won the first official Cape Verdean Football Championship
  
  ## Births
  
  * Tchalé Figueira, artist
  * Ana Firmino, singer
  * May 21: Djô d'Eloy (d. 2005), singer
  * December 1: Georgina Mello, economist, director-general of CPLP
  