O livro Cada homem é uma raça (1990) apresenta 11 contos ("estórias") - "A Rosa Caramela", "O apocalipse privado do Tio Geguê", "Rosalinda, a nenhuma", "O embondeiro que sonhava pássaros", "A princesa russa", "O pescador cego", "O ex-futuro padre e sua pré-viúva", "Mulher de mim", "A lenda da noiva e do forasteiro", "Sidney Poitier na barbearia de Firipe Beruberu", "Os mastros do Paralém" - contos de encantar, pela extraordinária capacidade de nos envolver em todos aqueles cenários deslumbrantes.

Excerto:
"Inquirido sobre a sua raça, respondeu:
— A minha raça sou eu, João Passarinheiro.
Convidado a explicar-se, acrescentou:
— Minha raça sou eu mesmo. A pessoa é uma humanidade individual. Cada homem é uma raça, senhor polícia."

Every Man Is a Race

This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire to the fifteen-year civil war that followed independence and its continued after-effects. Though peace was achieved in 1992 through international mediation, Mozambique's remarkable recovery has shown signs of stalling. Malyn Newitt explores the historical roots of Mozambican disunity and hampered development, beginning with the divisive effects of the slave trade, the drawing of colonial frontiers in the 1890s and the lasting particularities of the north, centre and south, inherited from the compartmentalized approach of concession companies. 
Following the nationalist guerrillas' victory against the Portuguese in 1975, these regional divisions resurfaced in a civil war pitting the south against the north and centre, over attempts at far-reaching socioeconomic change. The settlement of the early 1990s is now under threat from a revived insurgency, and the ghosts of the past remain. This book seeks to distill this complex history, and to understand why, twenty-five years after the Peace Accord, Mozambicans still remain among the poorest people in the world.


A Short History of Mozambique

It is the wise old woman of the village who teaches young Sofia about the secrets in the fire. Within the flames hide all things past and all things yet to be. But not even old Muazena can see the horrors the fire holds for Sofia and her family—not the murderous bandits who drive them from their home, and not the landmine that takes Sofia’s legs. In her long journey toward recovery, Sofia must still deal with growing up. Along the way, she discovers friends, and foes, in places she’d never expected. Through it all, Sofia draws on a strength she never knew she had, a fire of her own that’s been a secret all along. In beautifully spare, unsentimental language, Henning Mankell’s stunning novel puts a very human face on the suffering in Africa.

Secrets in the Fire (Sofia, #1)

As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem. Written in 1992, Mia Couto’s first novel is a powerful indictment of the suffering war brings.

Sleepwalking Land

A police inspector is investigating a strange murder, a case in which all the suspects are eager to claim responsibility for the act. Set in a former Portuguese fort which stored slaves and ivory, Under the Frangipani combines fable and allegory, dreams and myths with an earthy humour. The dead meet the living, language is invented, reality is constantly changing. Part thriller, part exploration of language, Mia Couto surprises and delights, and shows why he is one of the most important African writers of today.

Under the Frangipani

Ualalapi

Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique—a naturally rich country—into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South African lens, viewing the conflict as apartheid's "forward defense." This lens was shattered by what he witnessed and what he heard from Mozambicans, especially those who had lived with the "bandidos armado", the "armed bandits" otherwise known as the Renamo rebels. The shifting, wrenching, ground-level stories that people told combine to form an account of the war more local and nuanced, more complex, more "African"—than anything that has been politically convenient to describe.

"A Complicated War" combines frontline reporting, personal narrative, political analysis, and comparative scholarship to present a picture of a Mozambique harrowed by profound local conflicts—ethnic, religious, political and personal. Finnegan writes that South Africa's domination and destabilization are basic elements of Mozambique's plight, but he offers a subtle description and analysis that will allow us to see the post-apartheid region from a new, more realistic, if less comfortable, point of view.

A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique's first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country's traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over.

The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy

A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them.

Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto’s "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there.

Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Mariamar’s father imprisons her in her home, where she relives painful memories of past abuse and hopes to be rescued by Archangel. Meanwhile, Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but when he begins to suspect there is more to them than meets the eye, he starts to lose control of his hands. The hunt grows more dangerous, until it’s no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kulumani feel increasingly threatened by the outsider, the forces of modernity upon their traditional culture, and the danger of their animal predators closing in, it becomes clear the lionesses might not be real lionesses at all but spirits conjured by the ancient witchcraft of the women themselves.

Both a riveting mystery and a poignant examination of women’s oppression, "Confession of the Lioness" explores the confrontation between the modern world and ancient traditions to produce an atmospheric, gripping novel.

Confession of the Lioness

Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. 

The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. 

A high-action story written with a poet's hand, "The Name of the Wind" is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

In the tradition of Katherine Boo's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers", an unforgettable exploration of the disturbing daily lives behind the scenes in Mozambique, Africa's former "rising star"

Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has experienced steeper economic growth than China, making it among the fastest-growing economies on the planet. But most Mozambicans have little to show for the nation's prosperity; to travel in Mozambique is to see much of the promise of development as a mirage. And in the fall of 2016, a sudden debt crisis gripped the nation, heralding what many in the financial world feared might be the beginning of a "global financial shockwave" ("The Guardian").

"Go Tell the Crocodiles" explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. Author Rowan Moore Gerety tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambique's child labor laws to make his living selling muffins to a community that struggles with frequent crocodile attacks. Gerety introduces us to a nation struggling with mercenaries, refugees, infectious disease, human smuggling, child labor, warlords, and political corruption, weaving stories together into a stunning broader account of the challenges facing Africa and all developing nations. 


Go Tell the Crocodiles: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique

The sixteen-year-long war in Mozambique between the Frelimo government and Renamo rebels remains one of the most overlooked and misunderstood of the conflicts that raged across Africa during the height of the Cold War. While usually viewed as mere sideshow to more high-profile wars in Angola, Rhodesia and within apartheid South Africa itself, it nonetheless is noteworthy in its complexity, duration and destructiveness. Before it was all over in 1992 at least one million Mozambicans would be dead, millions more homeless and the country lying in ruins. Ultimately Frelimo would get its victory not on the battlefield but rather at the polling booth in 1994. Based on more than a decade of meticulous research, a review of thousands of pages of military records and documents, and dozens of in-depth interviews with political leaders, diplomats, generals, and soldiers and sailors, this book tells the story of the war from the perspective of those who fought it and lived it. It follows Renamo's growth from its Rhodesian roots in 1977 as a weapon against Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwean nationalist guerrillas operating from Mozambique through South African patronage in the early 1980s to Renamo's evolution as a self-sufficient nationalist insurgency. In tracing the ebb and flow of the conflict from the rugged mountains and Savannah forests of central Mozambique across the hot, humid Zambezi River valley and down to the very outskirts of the Mozambican capital in the far south, it examines the operational strategy of Frelimo and Renamo commanders in the field, the battles they fought and the lives of their troops. In doing so it highlights personal struggles, each side's successes and failures, and the missed opportunities to decisively turn the tide of war. Accordingly, this book provides the first real comprehensive military history of a war too long neglected and under appreciated in the chronicles of modern African history.

The Battle for Mozambique: The Frelimo-Renamo Struggle, 1977-1992

Battle for the Bundu: The First World War in East Africa

All of us want to raise good kids. And we want to be good parents. But what exactly do we mean by "good?" And is "being good" really the point?

Mother-daughter team Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson contend that every way we try to make our kids "good" is simply an extension of Old Testament Law--a set of standards that is not only unable to save our children, but also powerless to change them.

No, rules are not the answer. What they need is GRACE.

We must tell our kids of the grace-giving God who freely adopts rebels and transforms them into loving sons and daughters. If this is not the message your children hear, if you are just telling them to "be good," then the gospel needs to transform your parenting too.

Give Them Grace is a revolutionary perspective on parenting that shows us how to receive the gospel afresh and give grace in abundance, helping our children know the dazzling love of Jesus and respond with heartfelt obedience.

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, "Slavery by Any Other Name" tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed central Mozambique under a royal charter and built a vast forced labor regime camouflaged by the rhetoric of the civilizing mission.

Oral testimonies from more than one hundred Mozambican elders provide a vital counterpoint to the perspectives of colonial officials detailed in the archival records of the Mozambique Company. Putting elders' voices into dialogue with officials' reports, Eric Allina reconstructs this modern form of slavery, explains the impact this coercive labor system had on Africans' lives, and describes strategies they used to mitigate or deflect its burdens. In analyzing Africans' responses to colonial oppression, Allina documents how some Africans succeeded in recovering degrees of sovereignty, not through resistance, but by placing increasing burdens on fellow Africans--a dynamic that paralleled developments throughout much of the continent.

This volume also traces the international debate on slavery, labor, and colonialism that ebbed and flowed during the first several decades of the twentieth century, exploring a conversation that extended from the backwoods of the Mozambique-Zimbabwe borderlands to ministerial offices in Lisbon and London. "Slavery by Any Other Name" situates this history of forced labor in colonial Africa within the broader and deeper history of empire, slavery, and abolition, showing how colonial rule in Africa simultaneously continued and transformed past forms of bondage.

Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life Under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique

Asher 'Ghost' Collins and Natalie Kovac shared a passionate night together. One neither of them can forget.

So why is it so hard for them to be around each other?

With no hope of the two getting along they decide to go their separate ways. And somehow end up closer than they've ever been.

Will friendship ever be enough for the pair?

Love Thy Neighbour (Friend-Zoned, #2)

A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons.

The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning.

Years after the Ark was cut off from the world--a world much like our own, but in which slavery has never existed--a chance of survival within the Ark's confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to future excellence is marred only by a closely guarded secret: without warning, his spirit leaves his body, allowing him to see and experience a world far beyond his physical limitations.

Once inside the Ark, Denny learns of another with the same power, whose existence could spell catastrophe for humanity. He is forced into a desperate race to understand his abilities, and in doing so uncovers the truth about the Ark, himself, and the people he thought he once knew.

A River Called Time

What makes people believe in vaccination against bullets, or in cannabalistic hitmen who cruise the night skies on bat-back? Nick Middleton travelled to Mozambique to find out.

Kalashnikovs and Zombie Cucumbers: Travels in Mozambique

'FLOWERS IN THE RAIN &amp; OTHER STORIES' COLLECTS 16 OF NUMBER-ONE 'NEW YORK TIMES' BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ROSAMUNDE PILCHER'S TALES SET ACROSS BRITAIN FROM THE SCOTTISH COUNTRYSIDE TO THE CITY OF LONDON.

Rosamunde Pilcher. . .

She makes you laugh. . .
She makes you cry. . .
She takes you to a world of hope and romance. . .and into the lives of people you'll never forget.
She's Rosamunde Pilcher, America's most beloved storyteller. . .

©1991 Roasamunde Pilcher (P)2018 Hodder &amp; Stoughton Ltd.

Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories

Six Years in Mozambique: Things I Haven't Told Mom

And They Still Dance


  The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers
Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slowly approaching the border village. Desperate for help, Germano enlists Imani, a fifteen-year-old girl, to act as his interpreter. She belongs to the VaChopi tribe, one of the few who dared side with the Portuguese. But while one of her brothers fights for the Crown of Portugal, the other has chosen the African emperor. Standing astride two kingdoms, Imani is drawn to Germano, just as he is drawn to her. But she knows that in a country haunted by violence, the only way out for a woman is to go unnoticed, as if made of shadows or ashes. Alternating between the voices of Imani and Germano, Mia Couto’s "Woman of the Ashes" combines vivid folkloric prose with extensive historical research to give a spellbinding and unsettling account of war-torn Mozambique at the end of the nineteenth century.

Woman of the Ashes (Sands of the Emperor, #1)

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán traveled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-traveled life, felt at home—in a place "so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama." After three marriages and various affairs, she also fell in love. She set up a school and, together with her niece, the Teran Foundation, a non-profit organization to promote sustainable development in Southern Africa. A tale of new beginnings in a country of contrasts and challenges, this is her most inspiring story yet.

Mozambique Mysteries

Diving Ponta: A dive and photo guide of Ponta do Ouro, Ponta Malongane and Ponta Mamoli, Mozambique

Tudo Bem: Living as a Mulungo in Mozambique

"Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher" "Lonely Planet Zambia, Mozambique &amp; Malawi" is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit the largest waterfalls on earth at Victoria Falls, canoe past swimming elephants in Lower Zambezi, or hike the dramatic scenery of Mt Mulanje -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Zambia, Mozambique &amp; Malawi" "and begin your journey now! 
  Inside "Lonely Planet" "Zambia, Mozambique &amp; Malawi "Travel Guide: 
   Colour maps and images throughout   Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests   Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots   Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices   Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss   Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, economy, religion, music &amp; dance, literature, environment, wildlife, cuisine   Over 50 maps   Covers Lusaka, Chipata, Zambezi River, Kafue National Park, Victoria Falls, Lake Kariba, Mozambique Island, Maputo, Quirimbas Archipelago, Lake Niassa, Chimanimani Mountains, Lake Malawi, Mt Mulanje, Lilongwe" "and more   The Perfect Choice: "Lonely Planet Zambia, Mozambique &amp; Malawi" , our most comprehensive guide to Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out "Lonely Planet" "Africa "guide" "and "Southern Africa "guide for a comprehensive look at all these regions have to offer. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! "Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016." 
  "'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media "
"'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times" eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones)    Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges   Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews   Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience   

Lonely Planet Zambia, Mozambique & Malawi (Travel Guide)

Do universo de Mia Couto nasce este Mar me Quer, estória de Zeca e Luarmina. 

Das viagens pela infância, do contacto com o mar, de regressos ao passado se constrói uma narrativa singular.

« Meu passado me pesa: minha infância morreu cedo, eu tive que carregar esse peso morto em minha vida. Aos seis anos tomei lugar de meu avô no barco, dois anos depois meu pai perdia o juízo e saía de casa, cego e louco. Minha mãe, antes de morrer, me entregou na igreja. O padre português Jacinto Nunes me educou em preceito de Deus e livro. Mas eu queria regressar ao mar e cedo troquei livro por rede. Sempre entregando muito, recebendo pouco. Meu avô Celestiano culpava meu pai dessa má sorte. [...] »

Mar me Quer

Mia Couto é sem sombra de dúvidas o escritor africano de língua portuguesa mais conhecido e a sua obra, várias vezes premiada, está traduzida em diversas línguas.

Surge agora "Na Berma de Nenhuma Estrada e Outros Contos", um conjunto de 38 histórias, escolhidas pelo autor dos seus relatos curtos publicados na imprensa portuguesa e moçambicana.
São histórias de um universo mágico, onde o fantástico e o sobrenatural coexistem com o quotidiano, com personagens intensas e uma capacidade de efabulação extraordinária, que nos prendem e nos encantam.

E donde emanam estas histórias? "Vêm da berma de nenhuma estrada. Quero inventar um sítio onde me invente a mim, um sítio onde tudo seja possível outra vez, onde a palavra possa ter essa dimensão mágica. É desse não lugar que surge a escrita, mas ele pertence a um lugar meu, que é Moçambique, a minha infância." (o escritor em entrevista ao portal ajanela.com)

Na Berma de Nenhuma Estrada e Outros Contos

"A Different Kind of War Story" takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during the fifteen-year war of terror that took a million lives--mostly civilian--and completely destroyed homes, crops, hospitals, schools, and even access to water. The characters are the soldiers who fought it, the thieves and opportunists who profited from it, and the ordinary people whose lives were shattered by it and from whose ranks emerged the heroes and healers who created peace.

Combining contemporary theory and innovative methodology, Nordstrom explores the nature and culture of terror warfare and raises thought-provoking questions about state power, civilian resistance, and the politics of identity. She compares the conflict in Mozambique with similar conflicts and offers a new way of looking at political violence, showing that just as violence is learned, it can be unlearned.

A Different Kind of War Story

Are you excited about planning your next trip?Do you want to try something new?Would you like some guidance from a local?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you.
  

Greater Than a Tourist- Maputo, Mozambique by Bruno Eugénio Chirrime offers the inside scoop on Maputo. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist.  Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.
  

In these pages, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay.  This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other smaller print travel books.
  

Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and the culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next destination.
  


  

Inside this travel guide book you will find: 
   Insider tips from a local. 
  
   Bonus tips"50 Things to Know About Packing Light for Travel" by bestselling author Manidipa Bhattacharyya. 
  
   Packing and planning list. 
  
   List of travel questions to ask yourself or others while traveling. 
  
   A place to write your travel bucket list. 
 
  Our Story

  

Traveling is a passion of the "Greater than a Tourist" series creator. Lisa studied abroad in college, and for their honeymoon Lisa and her husband toured Europe. During her travels to Malta, an older man tried to give her some advice based on his own experience living on the island since he was a young boy. She was not sure if she should talk to the stranger but was interested in his advice. When traveling to some places she was wary to talk to locals because she was afraid that they weren’t being genuine. Through her travels, Lisa learned how much locals had to share with tourists. Lisa created the "Greater Than a Tourist "book series to help connect people with locals. A topic that locals are very passionate about sharing.

GREATER THAN A TOURIST - MAPUTO MOZAMBIQUE: 50 Travel Tips from a Local

On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes "making" lions or transforming into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party subscribed to socialism, it condemned sorcery beliefs and counter-sorcery practices as false consciousness, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party—still in power after three electoral cycles—has "tolerated tradition," leaving villagers to interpret and engage with events in the idiom of sorcery. Now, when the lions prowl plateau villages ,suspected sorcerers are often lynched. 

In this historical ethnography of sorcery, Harry G. West draws on a decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology and political science to reveal how Muedans expect responsible authorities to monitor the invisible realm of sorcery and to overturn or, as Muedans call it, "kupilikula" sorcerers' destructive attacks by practicing a constructive form of counter-sorcery themselves. "Kupilikula" argues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.

Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique

Throughout her life, Melissa Jesperson Moore had to hide her true identity. She had pretended that life was perfect after her parents divorced and she was suddenly uprooted from everything familiar and loving. She had to be silent and pretend not to be disturbed or upset by her father's actions. Those experiences prepared Moore to hide the deepest, darkest secret of all. As she began making different choices, building a successful and loving life on her own, her heart began to fill with rays of hope, though she could never quite rid herself of the dark shadow of secrecy and shame.

"Shattered Silence" is an astonishing, true narrative of personal and spiritual transformation. From her secret life as "the daughter of The Happy Face Serial Murderer" to a woman who bared her soul and inspired millions, Moore leads the reader on the vulnerable, compelling, and sometimes very raw journey of what it took to shatter the silence and claim her own life.

Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter

The characters in these short stories - including the snake catcher who surrounds his lady's house with snakes and the man who scalds his wife with boiling water for fear that she is a witch - are all caught up in a landscape defined only by its contradictions.

Voices Made Night

Is Mozambique an African success story? It has 7 percent a year growth rate and substantial foreign investment. Fifteen years after the war of destabilisation, the peace has held. Mozambique is the donors' model pupil, carefully following their prescriptions and receiving more than a billion dollars a year in aid. The number of bicycles has doubled and this is often cited as the symbol of development. In this book the authors challenge some key assumptions of both the donors and the government and ask questions such as whether there has been too much stress on the Millennium Development Goals and too little support for economic development; if it makes sense to target the poorest of the poor, or would it be better to target those who create the jobs which will employ the poor; whether there has been too much emphasis on foreign investment and too little on developing domestic capital; and if the private sector really will end poverty, or must there be a stronger role for the state in the economy? This book is about more than Mozambique. Mozambique is an apparent success story that is used to justify the present 'post-Washington consensus' development model. Here, the case of Mozambique is situated within the broader development debate. Joseph Hanlon is Senior Lecturer at the Open University and the author of Beggar Your Neighbours; Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots?; and Peace without Profit (all published by James Currey) which he: Who Calls the Shots?; and Peace without Profit (all published by James Currey) which have all made influential interventions in the developmen

Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique? Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique?

…ne samo da je ostavila trag u mozambičkoj književnosti, nego postaje i jedna od najzanimljivijih afričkih književnica koje treba pratiti.
Tony Simões Da Silva, African Review Of Books
 
Ako je već književnost koju pišu žene drukčiji svijet, kojem pristupaju iz kutova iz kojih
muškarci teško sagledavaju stvari, zamislimo onda kakav može biti svijet kakva ga vidi afrička, mozambička žena, pogotovo ako njime upravljaju običaji i tradicije koji nam se čine neobičnima. Taj čudni i čudesni svijet nudi nam Paulina Chiziane u svojim knjigama.
(…)
Sljedbenicama Simone de Beauvoir i Flore Tristan sve će to sigurno zvučati čudno, ali taj je diskurs Chiziane odabrala kako bi upozorila na patnju afričkih žena, rušeći tradicionalne vrijednosti. To ne znači da potpuno dijeli vrijednosti bijelih feministica. Upravo je bijela civilizacija donijela toliko patnje Africi da bilo koju ideju, makar uokvirenu ljudskim vrijednostima, uvijek prima s nepovjerenjem.
Prof. dr. Adelto Gonçalves, iz teksta Crni feminizam Pauline Chiziane, Jornal Opcao
 
I čini se da u ritmu niketchea odjekuju posljednji zvuci romana Pauline Chiziane. U borbi za svoj prostor slobode, neovisnosti i potpunosti u muškom svijetu ona ostavlja pouku jednaku onoj da ‘’žene, ruku pod ruku, mogu poboljšati svoj svijet’’, gradeći svemir u ritmu ženskog plesa i time uspostavljajući ‘’protuples’’ muškom status quo. Ako se zaista “kad ples završi, među gledateljima mogu čuti uzdasi kao da se bude iz lijepa sna”, onda se mi nezasitni čitatelji budimo očekujući još jedan ples u kojem će nas ponijeti i očarati slatki ritam ove pripovjedačice.
Jorge Valentim, Abril, časopis centra za studije portugalske i afričke književnosti UFF-a

Niketche: A Story of Polygamy

Award winning novel

Winner of:

NIEA finalist for historical fiction
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Ten-year-old Aderito has been brought from the United States to the banks of a beautiful river in Homoine, Mozambique. There, he befriends a young girl named Victoria, and for a brief time, their childhood is promising. Soon, the violence that is raging across the country makes its way to Aderito’s doorstep, and both children are abducted by rebels and forced to learn the ways of trained killers in a war they barely understand. 

With only each other for support, Victoria and Aderito struggle to remain unnoticed among their peers. But the more Aderito kills, the more he needs killing, channeling all his rage into war and becoming a valuable weapon. And Victoria, growing older and prettier by the day, begins to attract unwanted attention from their captors. 

Caught in a battle that ravages villages and tears families apart, Aderito knows he cannot expect a happy ending. And yet he and Victoria make brave plans to escape—only to find themselves facing torments that no adult, let alone child, should ever have to face. As Mozambique struggles through its defining crisis, Aderito too must find a way to survive the childhood that will come to define him as a man.

Amani's River

Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guine-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are among the most underreported conflicts of the modern era. Commonly referred to as Lisbon's Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies, the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertacao), these struggles played a seminal role in ending white rule in Southern Africa. Though hardly on the scale of hostilities being fought in South East Asia, the casualty count by the time a military coup d'etat took place in Lisbon in April 1974 was significant. It was certainly enough to cause Portugal to call a halt to violence and pull all its troops back to the Metropolis. Ultimately, Lisbon was to move out of Africa altogether, when hundreds of thousands of Portuguese nationals returned to Europe, the majority having left everything they owned behind. Independence for all the former colonies, including the Atlantic islands, followed soon afterwards. Lisbon ruled its African territories for more than five centuries, not always undisputed by its black and mestizo subjects, but effectively enough to create a lasting Lusitanian tradition. That imprint is indelible and remains engraved in language, social mores and cultural traditions that sometimes have more in common with Europe than with Africa. Today, most of the newspapers in Luanda, Maputo - formerly Lourenco Marques - and Bissau are in Portuguese, as is the language taught in their schools and used by their respective representatives in international bodies to which they all subscribe. Indeed, on a recent visit to Central Mozambique in 2013, a youthful member of the American Peace Corps told this author that despite having been embroiled in conflict with the Portuguese for many years in the 1960s and 1970s, he found the local people with whom he came into contact inordinately fond of their erstwhile 'colonial overlords'. As a foreign correspondent, Al Venter covered all three wars over more than a decade, spending lengthy periods in the territories while going on operations with the Portuguese army, marines and air force. In the process he wrote several books on these conflicts, including a report on the conflict in Portuguese Guinea for the Munger Africana Library of the California Institute of Technology. Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa represents an amalgam of these efforts. At the same time, this book is not an official history, but rather a journalist's perspective of military events as viewed by somebody who has made a career of reporting on overseas wars, Africa's especially. Venter's camera was always at hand; most of the images used between these covers are his. His approach is both intrusive and personal and he would like to believe that he has managed to record for posterity a tiny but vital segment of African history."

Mozambique

Every Man Is a Race

Mia Couto

A Short History of Mozambique

Malyn D. Newitt

Secrets in the Fire (Sofia, #1)

Henning Mankell

Sleepwalking Land

Mia Couto

Under the Frangipani

Mia Couto

Ualalapi

Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

William Finnegan

The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy

Paulina Chiziane

Confession of the Lioness

Mia Couto

A Short History of Mozambique

Malyn D. Newitt

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

Patrick Rothfuss

Go Tell the Crocodiles: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique

Rowan Moore Gerety

The Battle for Mozambique: The Frelimo-Renamo Struggle, 1977-1992

Stephen A. Emerson

Battle for the Bundu: The First World War in East Africa

Charles Miller

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life Under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique

Eric Allina

Love Thy Neighbour (Friend-Zoned, #2)

Belle Aurora

A River Called Time

Courttia Newland

Kalashnikovs and Zombie Cucumbers: Travels in Mozambique

Nick Middleton

Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories

Rosamunde Pilcher

Six Years in Mozambique: Things I Haven't Told Mom

Amy Gillespie

And They Still Dance

Stephanie Urdang

Woman of the Ashes (Sands of the Emperor, #1)

Mia Couto

Mozambique Mysteries

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

Diving Ponta: A dive and photo guide of Ponta do Ouro, Ponta Malongane and Ponta Mamoli, Mozambique

Luca Crudeli and Ashok Menon

Tudo Bem: Living as a Mulungo in Mozambique

Valerie Cooper

Lonely Planet Zambia, Mozambique & Malawi (Travel Guide)

Lonely Planet

Mar me Quer

Mia Couto

Na Berma de Nenhuma Estrada e Outros Contos

Mia Couto

A Different Kind of War Story

Carolyn Nordstrom

GREATER THAN A TOURIST - MAPUTO MOZAMBIQUE: 50 Travel Tips from a Local

Bruno Eugénio Chirrime

Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique

Harry G. West

Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter

Melissa G. Moore

Voices Made Night

Mia Couto

Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique? Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique?

Joseph Hanlon

Niketche: A Story of Polygamy

Paulina Chiziane

Amani's River

David Hartness

Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa: Lisbon's Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portugese Guinea 1961-74

Al J. Venter