Go tell the crocodiles
Subtitle: chasing prosperity in Mozambique
By: Rowan Moore Gerety
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781620972762
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Informal sector (Economics)
Description: "Go Tell the Crocodiles explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. Author Rowan Moore Gerety tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambique?s child labor laws to make his living selling muffins, to a riverside community that has lost dozens of people to crocodile attacks. Moore Gerety introduces us to a nation still coming to grips with a long civil war and the legacy of colonialism even as it wrestles with the toll of infectious disease and a wave of refugees, weaving stories together into a stunning account of the challenges facing countries across Africa."--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-343).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: It all happens on the margins-Maputo/Beira; title: Small-town hustle-Zambezia; title: What can you do with an aging warlord?-Zambezia; title: Branco; title: Branco-Zambezia; title: Confessions of a human smuggler-Nampula; title: Where have you hidden the cholera?-Nampula; title: Go tell the crocodiles-Tete; title: A mercenary's retirement plan-Tete; title: Neighborhood headquarters-Beira; title: The selling life-Maputo.