mozambique

Mozambique is an unknown country, hitherto. It separates itself from the usual tourist destinations in Africa and Javier Brandoli sends us his stories from there.

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Africa

The African Macondo: Javier painful victory Brandoli

Habla Javier de su experiencia africana como "una maravillosa derrota" and I rather think it is a painful victory, that of a guy who loved so intensely Africa ended aching Africa. And we with him.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 Oct., 2015

Mozambique, ten images

Mozambique was my home for more than two and a half years. A country full of contrasts that wander between diluted or reborn. It can be the great jewel of South Africa if they decide to really bet on it. Mozambique must decide what it wants to be.

byJavier Brandoli

26 November, 2014

Africa: in the last things

My brother, a great guy who sees life with some clarity by removing decorations, He once told me something that I never forgot the first time I left here: "Africa was your dream, was the legitimate. For all those who do not dare keep your dream ". And I listened to him, although sometimes it cost a little, and i dreamed.

byJavier Brandoli

29 Oct., 2014

A biopsy in Mozambique

I submitted two weeks before the consultation and she had forgotten to tell me that day did not come Dr.. Since then we have made a certain friendship that was forged with a smile. "I guess tomorrow will arrive alive", I told him to settle his confusion.

byJavier Brandoli

14 Oct., 2014

A special holiday in Mozambique

This special party could not be a more. The guests came from Bagdag, Bucharest and Cairo, Rome and Treviso, Azores, Kuala Lumpur and, also, from Madrid. In his shoes totaling more kilometers than the very Willy Fog. The place was magical. Everything was magical.

byRicardo Coarasa

3 Oct., 2014

Africa

Ruta VAP (II): Things waters of the Indian

Until recently Mozambique was one of the poorest countries in the world. No wonder. What I have seen so far and what I have been told shows me a face of Africa a little different from the one I knew. The Portuguese had to leave in 24 hours, which did not allow a minimally planned decolonization, shortly after there was a fifteen year civil war. The result is that the few Portuguese infrastructures have been lost.

12 September, 2014

Slowly

And in between everything and step, never on that route is the third time that had passed so many things in my environment. It was as if everything had answer because nothing was asked. And the sun stood with us and, thing to do everything so slow, we was always waiting.

byJavier Brandoli

9 September, 2014

Africa

Ruta VAP (1): I believe in Africa

This makes me doubt the desirability of international cooperation and the future of this continent. Few meters separate a glimpse of another Africa. Is South Africa the model to follow? It is the European colonization responsible for African problems?

5 September, 2014

Poetry Mozambique

He is declaiming voice actor in Mozambique. And the country spoke of them in poetry. Rained down words and dreams, complaints and longings, while cinched night. And he spoke of the reach of the day, undeath miracle on earth. And love, only poetry originally invented to cure the ills of having broken the soul and will remain so as long as life is not ordered and bored

byJavier Brandoli

28 July, 2014

Mozambique: the forgotten dead

Mozambique is rarely discussed. You may also talk about the wrong way when we do. It is not easy to put into reality the international media of a neighboring country two giants information such as South Africa and Zimbabwe. Then he falls in social reports or headlines to justify their media space Cornered. I will try to settle here because my debt as a journalist to chronicle of a country that is experiencing a forgotten conflict, unwitnessed.

byJavier Brandoli

8 January, 2014

Would you like to travel with us to South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi?

Three weeks of travel by 4x4 to the lesser known South African. National Parks, pristine beaches, tropical islands and history, large cities, navigate a lake, take a train African, across a large canyon, dive ... A journey of a living author for Africa at its best.

17 December, 2013

Immoral bribe to cure malaria

Cover, we gave him 200 MZN (5 EUR). I felt terrible. I'm ethically against all such arrangements fucking destroy this land. What to do? How to play the cards in a world without rules?

byJavier Brandoli

29 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (IX): arrived on the island with no time

when I imagined this whole project not imagine traveling with eight people from the category of Victor Hugo, Amaia, Txarli, Rosa, Irene, Martin, Lino and Monica, Traveled with eight good people who want to share a dream, I was just one more, the writer of this text, and therefore I'm Javier, the ninth of this group who crossed Africa, Malaui y Mozambique.

byJavier Brandoli

15 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (VIII): sleep in the "worst" hotel in the world

Have water?, asked. “No, no water, "he said quietly as the two we lay on a plastic couch office whose ceiling had a crack that threatened to collapse on our heads.

byJavier Brandoli

8 Oct., 2013

Ruta VAP (WE): the worst day of the trip

[st] We had almost called for trouble by announcing so many times that there was a route before Vilanculos and…

byJavier Brandoli

24 September, 2013

Ruta VAP (IV): the grotesque military convoy

For weeks there was no civilian casualties and the army had put a military convoy vehicles we heard all kinds of stories. None resembled reality.

byJavier Brandoli

10 September, 2013

Ruta VAP: la tercera vía

That night we go almost all the legendary Gil Vicente to hear a local band some cheer after the 1908, cool bar from Maputo, until and late hours. Back at the hotel, on the avenue 24 July, a roadblock trying to cash. Want money because Txarli not carry the passport. Play hold me until he sees that no note and let me go. 100 meters later we stop other agents again ...

byJavier Brandoli

27 August, 2013

Ruta Vap, South Africa: crear un grupo

We crossed the border two cars and ten people who had no doubt, had become a group that would route some tests to demonstrate their unity. You were one and that was to say goodbye weeks later in Nampula, without the singular hinder anyone. "We got the hardest", I thought as we headed to Maputo.

byJavier Brandoli

23 August, 2013

Tanzania y Mozambique, from the air

He must have a border indicate air when you've crossed a border. We could entertain us lie saying that the change is very noticeable. The new houses, roads, Crop, tones of water or any kind of idiocy that allows us to establish ourselves in the deception that is often reality eye.

byJavier Brandoli

28 May, 2013

Villas do Indian: the prettiest tent sea

The site is cute, very pretty, carefully detailed rooms, excellent food restaurant and a pool and sea clear and warm water. But what I like is that I realized that the only rule that was imposed on me own and it was written: "Bother you in", said in a sign that no one painted.

byJavier Brandoli

1 May, 2013

madness and humor

In a psychiatric hospital while bombs were falling sick went outside to hold the fireworks; in a market a group of soldiers who never flees terrified a city flat hearing gunshots they believe are ambushed.

byJavier Brandoli

23 April, 2013

Girls soldier: his tale of horror

[st] They had 11, 14 and 15 years. Three girls, three soldiers. Three stories silent, buried for 20 years…

byJavier Brandoli

9 April, 2013

In the tomb of Mido Macia

Gone are those two older women, dressed in tight black and piercing eyes that now with the sun's reflection seem deeply moist. Their eyes are deep, strange. Nothing, no people, no forgetting and silence. Mido's death is because only that, oblivion. No more time for him in life.

byJavier Brandoli

26 March, 2013

Today has not killed anyone in South Africa

My work as a correspondent condemns these countries to have killed and scams. I can not, not published, send a notice to be called "a week ago in South Africa do not violate anyone". Nor imagine three columns or cover of the news website explains that "Mozambique's Ministry of Labour is not corrupt", accompanied by a detailed report which reveals that deviated dollar budget for "youth training".

byJavier Brandoli

5 March, 2013

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