Carlina Fortes Pereira (c. 1926 – 11 December 2011) was a Cape Verdean activist, politician, and prominent figure within the country's independence movement during the Portuguese colonial era.
Following independence, she became country's inaugural First Lady of Cape Verde during the presidency of her husband, Aristides Pereira.
[1] She returned to Cape Verde in June 2011, as she reportedly wished to spend her remaining life at her home in the Prainha neighborhood of Praia.
[1] Former President Aristides Pereira died in Portugal on 22 September 2011, following complications of diabetes and surgery to repair a broken femur.
[1] Carila Pereira, who had been in declining health, died just three months later on 11 December 2011 in Praia, Cape Verde, aged 85.