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26, November
2009
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  1. The Graduate

    nice. thank you. wish more peeps would post photojourn type stuff

  2. MothMan

    what was going on here?

    - the imagery of the church in the background and the mass gathering is so representative of how people look to religion for hope and strength.

    ironic though because it looks closed - is there a story of colonial christian missionary history?

    powerful imagery

  3. Uno

    @Moth:

    This is in Mozambique Island. It used to be an arab commercial outpost (hence the name from the sultan Mussa Al'biq), and in 1498 the Portuguese arrived, took over and built a town with coral rock from one side of the island making it lower than the sea level, where the "indigenous" were "allowed" to build their houses. This church, called Church of Santo António is on that side of the island, the Makuti town, where many civil war refugees settled during the 1980's creating an over population problem to an already problematic situation (there's no sewage system and the only way to make it is with a very expensive pumping station), resulting in people using the beach as a public toilet...
    This looks like some sort of street market, I don't remember seeing it last time I was there...

  4. MothMan

    re: UP - yea did look like a market at first glance. thanks for the interesting history.its an upsetting reality how colonialism still has such far reaching generational impact - its gonna take some serious sociopolitical will and time (probably not in our lifespan) to rectify the injustices and the plight of Africans

  5. NguJaz

    seems in.tense

  6. Uno

    Moth:
    In Mozambique it's more a lack of political will that is at the root of the problem. Some of these situations could be corrected if we stop enganging with these situations with an enslaved mind. We seem to miss the point in some liberation struggles in Africa, it's not about facing an enemy that is a white colonizer, it's about facing the enemy that lives within us and that takes the guise of inertia, greed, individualism (when it has a negative impact around us), etc. and that to some extent made (and still makes) it so easy for Africa to be colonized...

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