Cameron's Mozambican Kiva Fellowship – The Story
Posted in Books, Maputo, mozambique on Aug 16th, 2009
Yeah, me too! Yesterday when I arrived in Maputo I realized that I had left my book (King Leopold’s Ghost) in Boane, a 1.5 hour bus ride away. Fear not, just buy another one. Maputan sidewalks offer a literary selection that rivals Moe’s (on telegraph in Berkeley, CA) at a fraction of the cost. I’m [...]
Posted in Books on Aug 16th, 2009
I’m about 50 pages into King Leopold’s Ghost and it’s already rote with great quotes.
Congolese perceptions of slave traders
“The whites were thought to turn their captives’ flesh into salt meat, their brains into cheese, and their blood into the red wine that Europeans drank”
The Congo River
“So great is the drop and the volume of water [...]
