The African Macondo: agitators hippo queue

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"It does not rain because Mones (Muslims generally in India and Pakistan) not let it rain ", Ball tells me, Cook Hotel, while driving toward the city. He says it with that low tone and voice cracking with speaking here. His shyness is sometimes confused with distance, remoteness. I was never in a country in which both feel it is up the overall volume and therefore never bent his head to listen to my partner.

Yes, them where they want to make it rain. Trade control, have all stores, and do not care to have good harvests

"Do not rain because the rain will not let Mones? What do you mean?”, he snapped at Ball. “Sí, them where they want to make it rain. Trade control, have all stores, and do not care to have good harvests. If rains do not do business because they do not buy food ", I disputed elec. “Ahhhh. And how they get no rain?”, asked with some curiosity before hearing a response that if I had been given a hundred thousand opportunities to give it even had approached me. "Waving queues hippos with their hands, skyward, and prevent rain ", I emphatically explained. “!Sorry!”, exclaimed (I really thought that he had not heard right). “Sí, are placed in fields with hippopotamus tails waving in the wind and no rain ", I repeated the unwillingness and who explains the obvious several times.

Here sometimes delusional conversations where you end up doubting everything. Back at the hotel, with and image of a group of people waving to the wind hippo tails fixed in my mind, almost wish that were true, I'm going to talk to other workers with the confidence that I have a certain friendship. "Guys, Do you guys also think that it does not rain because Muslims hippo waving tails?”, I ask. Then everyone laughs with some embarrassment, is as if they knew that talk of a possible, magical realism know who invented and fail to recognize. But, after a few seconds I say emphatically: “Sí, they make it rain ". “!How hippo tails?!”. "If they do strange things. To pray with her ass pointed into the wind ", explain. "What does that have to do?”, cross-examination and knowing that I get in a maze. That they do not know answer. Seems strange and need not explain the reason that you see the eyes and unexplained.

«Hacen cosas muy raras. To pray with her ass pointed into the wind ", explain

"Have you ever seen a tail waving Mone a hippo?”. "I do not, but I know people in Beira (a city further north) who has seen ". Universal response, that of seeing without seeing through the eyes of others and prove what nobody saw. "Yes I've seen on the field as it rained a monetary and not raining on any of the fields that were next", Beni account. "These people do everything they can to control trade. Everyone talks about it ", repeats.

Between 20 and 25% Mozambique's population profess the Muslim religion, the majority are Sunni. Many of them are Pakistani or Indian origin. Generally a very community based in commercial areas, especially in areas such as Nampula, Beira y Maputo, large cities. And enrichment level of half life is above the rest of the population. They control their stores much of the local trade.

Just when I finish this text appears Acasio, a worker in the lodge with a somewhat higher level of education than the rest. You hear talk about the history of the sermons and hippo tails? “Sí, many people talk about that in Vilanculos. They do it in the fields. At Mones not like the rain, are traders ", concludes and goes.

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  • Juan Antonio

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    Great article Javier's amazing the belief that humans can hold and accept them without thinking and without questioning its provenance or accuracy…………. ufffff 'mystery how this world goes swarming. Although it is curious.
    What to pray with her ass facing the wind I guess if you ever fart will make an appearance, in? A hug

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  • Ann

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    I'll do like you when you tell it.. I'll reread, for I am with open mouth (and I will not comment further)

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  • Juancho

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    I imagine you sitting near the sea, cigarritto in hand, bottle of wine close…thinking of character names for your book… Write!!

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  • Hook

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    How good, Xavier, how good… The final round. This is the best story about people hippopotamus tails waving in the wind to rain I've read in my life. Seriously, is great!

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  • Javier Brandoli

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    In the end I do not know whether to believe it does not rain because hippos waving tails. Hugs and kisses to the four

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