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The islanders (Hardcover)
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The islanders (Hardcover)
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List price R650
Loot Price R507
Discovery Miles 5 070
You Save R143 (22%)
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When an elderly person dies, a library vanishes, says a Mozambican
proverb. Nowhere is this more poignant than in Ilha de Mozambique.
There are centuries of history among the island’s coral stone town
and macuti (palm leaf) huts, with stories that need to be told, but
this time by the people and not by the historians. “My first visit
to the Ilha was in 1977 and I fell in love with everything about
it; but mostly the light. It was deserted, as most of the
Portuguese inhabitants left during the transitional government, and
yet magical. I returned many times after the first visit. As a
result, my first book, called Muipiti, was published in 1983.
Sadly, soon after that, the civil war started. I was no longer able
to visit safely. I waited 28 years before I finally did in 2012,
and set up home. “This time round I became more aware of the
people. I wanted to capture their lives and memories, to pay homage
to them and give them a name and a voice before it was too late.
Through their words and my photographs I could understand a little
about their struggle and their frustrations. The more I got to know
them the more determined I became. At first there were many more
women eager to talk about their lives than men. Most of the men
were away, working to support the family. Sadly, in some ways quite
broken from their hard life. I found the women surprisingly free to
talk about their lives, their conquests and their proud seductive
powers. The cross mixing of families, sometimes intermarriage for
opportunistic economic reasons, kept these families linked and
protected. I discovered that black, white and Indian marry and have
children. Muslim mothers accept Christian sons-in-law and daughters
who convert to Catholicism for opportunistic reasons.” The island
people are proud and love their “Ilha” and their way of life and
culture. This book shares their passion and is a tribute to Ilha’s
special, resilient, warm people.
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