Loja (architecture)

Loja wani nau'i ne na mashaya ko kantin sayar da kayayyaki a Cape Verde, wanda ya ƙunshi yanki na salon rayuwar Creole.Nicolas Quint, "Civilisation : Les épiceries-bars et le grogue" (Civilization: Grocery-Bar and Grogue), Parlons capverdien : langue et culture (Cape Verdean Terms: Language and Culture), L'Harmattan, 2003, p. 116-117 

Ayyukan lojas, ana samun su a cikin gari da karkara. Maigidan yana tsaye a bayan kantin mashaya inda ake ajiye kayan abinci da kayan masarufi akan rumfuna. Abokan ciniki suna zama a gefe guda don sha (maza) ko shago (mata da yara). 

A lokacin mulkin mallaka, an kafa lojas a ko'ina cikin daular mulkin mallaka na Portugal a Afirka.Jean Ziegler, Les rebelles : contre l'ordre du monde : mouvements armés de libération nationale du Tiers monde [Rebels: Against the World Order: Armed Movemens for National Liberation of the Third World], Seuil, Paris, 1983, p. 196  Sanannun kaya sun haɗa da fitulun man fetur, abubuwan adanawa, takalman filastik, ashana, mai, yadudduka, sukari, gishiri da taliya. Gaɗaɗɗun mutane ( mestiços ) ne ke gudanar da waɗannan kasuwancin da suka karɓi matsakaicin matakin zamantakewa  duk da cewa suna da ƙanƙanta  sun ba su damar tabbatar da wani nau'i na fifiko akan ƴan asalin ƙasar.

A cikin labarin da Henrique Teixeira de Sousa ya yi, ya yi nazarin tsarin zamantakewar Fogo, tsibirinsa na asali, duka a cikin litattafansa The Island of Contenda by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa da kuma a cikin rubutunsa, "A estrutura social da Ilha do Fogo" ("Social Structure on the Island of Fogo"), Claridade, no. 5, 1957, "Sobrados, lojas e funcos ", Claridade, no. 8, 1958 ya nuna damuwa ga iyalai masu launin fata tare da haɓakar gauraye a cikin A ƙarshen 1940s, sun ji tsoron lokacin da "za a tura baƙar fata a cikin funco: [inda] za a dauki wurin gauraye da loja kuma na karshen ya sanya Farar zuwa sobrado.Nelson Eurico Cabral, Le moulin et le pilon, les îles du Cap-Vert (The Mill and the Pestle, the Cape Verde Islands), Harmattan, Paris, ACCT, 1980, p. 145  

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