Blogs from Maputo, Southern, Mozambique, Africa - page 4

well im going to the captil of mozambique 2moz yay me!!! so im there for 3 months and i dont no what the internet will be like there in some places there may not be running water!!! so plz pray... read more

i must be quick, i have 4 remaining minutes. i have a mozambique cell number for anyone wishing to speak to me while i am here. it is (00258) 829874034. the 00258 is the country code. it is a cell so it may be necessary to dial +258 instead of 00258, then my number? but i don't think so. it is much cheaper to call from the usa than it is to call to it. if it is cheap enough for you feel free to ring. chau ps. i will hopefully update blog soon!!... read more

So this is the first chance I've had in a while to update things. Currently I am in Maputo, Mozambique. This is a very pleasant city, lots of tropical plants, large trees with overhanging branches, old aesthetic buildings of Portuguese infuence. Not huge and asphyxiating like Johannesburg. Of course, there is the typical African street markets, beggars, trash strewn about, etc. But I have to say, that I am becoming more accustomed to all of that. For better or worse, it doesn't seem as unusual or dramatically discouraging to see dirty, shoeless children rooting through broken glass to find something of value. Certainly everywhere has its destitute, America is no exception, but it just seems to be overwhelming here. Anyhow, when I last signed off I was on the way to Durban. I ended up spending ... read more

Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, is what Lonely Planet describes as one of the most agreeable capital cities in Africa. Don’t get me wrong I liked Maputo but I fear for the worst in the other countries. The Portuguese knew how to build a city, stuff as many trees in as possible and then build some attractive building. The city is at the moment a wild mix of recently renovated building, buildings, which haven’t seen a new coat of paint in years and some, which clearly haven’t been inhabited for a long time. Not really surprising as the so-called civil war that ravaged the country for many years ended sometime in the 90s and it left the country in a miserable shape. Therefore it is quite amazing that the city recovered and is in the shape ... read more

i've driven like a fiend straight down, across, through and around and now out my hotel window is shining, strange maputo. it's a city that is still learning how to be a city, the way that africans in general seem to be learning how to be people, people from the television. if there was never a television imported to africa these africans would not know about wearing their hats backwards, or low over their eyes, or about walking with a swing step, or about building and living in cement. everyone says it who has come here, that the problem is wherever the west goes, along with it goes the problems of the west. the question is if the original problems of africa are worse than our replacement problems. the original problems... disease, famine, poverty... they can ... read more