Jun 181 min[128] MovedShe used to smile wide and reveal an orange rind her long hair—grey and straight—gently hanging down her spine She'd make us...
May 262 min[126] Came To GoThere lives a kind man with wavy, silver hair and a latin tongue that speaks volumes of romance even when ordering simple pasta with red...
May 52 min[125] TomorrowThere was a young Mozambican man who carved beautiful birds out of wood. They stood tall and stately—some with elegant bent beaks, all...
Apr 32 min[120] On The Road The strip and curve of Waikiki—with its swanky designer stores along Kalakaua and its glistening, almost fully human-made beach of clear...
Feb 201 min[114] Holding A LifeThe village was buzzing with the musings of everyday, as the rhythm of the pestle hit the bottom of the mortar—the clap in the...
Feb 31 min[111] The Arrival And DepartureI once lived in a far off culture where the ceremony of arrival was full of tradition—the host breaks the pink kola nut cut into small...
Jan 272 min[109] In The Deep BreathI met a kind man in 1991. He had travelled across a large swath of land in Mozambique some years before, stepping over the borderline of...
Jan 162 min[108] To The EdgeThere is a memory of a river—long and deep—remote and isolated but full of the things it is meant to carry—in a place ever swallowed by...
Jan 21 min[105] The True SpiritsMistaela Correia was born in 1954 in Gorongosa. When he was 12 years old his grandfather died. As was customary, his family made a...
Dec 19, 20212 min[103] The Hands In The MakingIn the village, the chore always comes, be it child or not, with the silhouette of a woman or girl for this one, no doubt—though...
Dec 9, 20214 min[101] My Friend And A JourneyThe village was nestled in the rainforest, over 15 miles from the main, red-dirt road that slithered the country of Liberia from north to...
Nov 14, 20212 min[97] DistanceIt was 1995 and a very long ride of swells on a dhow to get to the Island of Ibo, with its bluest waters and pink coral, its whitest...
Nov 7, 20211 min[95] My Friend And IThe rains would come heavy each afternoon in this hot tropical land—mostly—without fail. And those who had—even just a bit more than the...
Oct 31, 20211 min[93] Into CourageIt was a blanket of mystic and awe along the River Buzi— its water embracing precariously those who travel, as me, along its deepness—and...
Oct 24, 20212 min[91] Begin WellChomba Chakala Chakulumamwanyoka was born of the Makonde in Miula in the year when they built the shops in Namawa village. An elder—Ndona...
Oct 17, 20211 min[89] The Many ColorsIt was July 1992 when Samsão Damangani sat down with me in the urban sprawl of Maputo City. He was 78 at the time, an old man—he...
Oct 3, 20211 min[87] The Art Of TemptationUnder the shade of tall, swaying coconut trees in the far away town of Buzi in Sofala, in December 1994, a woman—an elder—Macore...
Sep 16, 20211 min[83] GnarledTo the side of my door, he would come. His young face gnarled with piercing eyes and burned out skin, that's what, today, floats to the...
Sep 9, 20212 min[81] Flushed With SpiritThe boy walked the streets—cobblestone, dirt, paved. With long back, strong feet, determined eyes and quick wit, he walked the streets of...
Sep 2, 20212 min[79] From Tradition To TrendThey call it musiro in Kimwani. It's a piece of wood from the xumbuti tree—ground against a sand-like stone using a bit of water creating...
Aug 19, 20211 min[75] The Beating HeartIn the spirit of tradition, the men cleared the farmer's field, made offerings to those who had come before. The women—lined up, wrapped...
Aug 15, 20212 min[74] Waiting for SunriseThey used to go early in the morning to the beach. They used ndala—prawns—as bait for fishing off the coast, casting the line and hook...
Aug 8, 20212 min[72] Under The ShadeThey keep the bzinyanga in a sack on the veranda of Phoinde Vinte's house in the village of Mpadwe in the Province of Tete. It's much...
Aug 5, 20212 min[71] The Time Of The KanyiIt was January 1994. The time of the kanyi had just begun, bringing in the New Year as it does each year—a time when the people talk to...