Cabo Verde

Cape Verde has participated in the Own Africavision Song Contest 13 times since its debut in the first edition. The country's best result is 4th place, achieving this at the Own Africavision Song Contest 3.

History
In their debut they got robbed with the song "Loco" by the talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique Jennifer Dias featuring Elji Beatzkilla, placing thirteenth in the Grand Final. In the second edition Djodje was internally selected with "Atrevido", getting robbed again placing seventeenth in the Final. The robberies streak finished in the third edition thanks to Lisandro Cuxi, who's song "Dançar" managed to achieve the fourth place in the contest, giving it's first AQ spot to Cape Verde and so far the best placement of the capeverdean history.

The AQ spot of the Grand Final was obtained by Yasmine, who won the first edition of Festival do Praia with "Quem é?", placing in a respectable nineteenth position. Jennifer Dias finally got her revenge in the fifth edition, achieving a fifth place alongside Sureno Beatzz & Supa Squad with the song "Boom" obtaining a second automatic qualification. Mongolian-Capeverdean singer Naam managed to win the second edition of Festival do Praia by a huge margin with "Gun Tsenher", automatically classified to the final she was the first Asian to represent the African country, she finished seventh in the Grand Final, missing the Top 6 and an AQ streak by just one place.

Cape Verde failed to qualify for the first time in the seventh edition with Mónica Sintra finishing thirteenth in the Semi-Final and since then an obscure era has pursued the country. An streak of non qualifications followed the country for five editions, during this period big names of the capeverdean industry such as Elji Beatzkilla and Soraia Ramos tried to bring the country back to the Final, but without any success. In the twelfth edition Festival do Praia 5 was hosted; Swedish-Capeverdean duo VAZ were crowned as the winners, returning to the contest after missing the Grand Final of the eighth edition by just 3 points, willing this time to reach the long awaited final.