Disease
 
The worst of misfortunes I saw in Africa was the one affecting all children. I have said ALL CHILDREN. When I was on a tour with my father, and we arrived an amount of huts, I always beheld bunches and bunches of children with swollen bellies. Yes, all children had swollen bellies. The little and the bigger ones. Never anybody told to me what this disease it was! Never! Today I don't know the cause of this monstrous disease. Monstrous and awful disease. Famine?? Intestine parasites?? What it was and it is my God? What??!!!! In my house my animals had never swollen bellies! Do you understand what I am saying? Do you understand???

World map/Mappa Mundi
 
In this month of June of 2012, I stopped the van by the side of a walkway and went a travel agency in. There I delivered some books and waited the payment cheque. I was waiting for when my eyes caught a big World map, in the wall, and a «Made in France» one! When I was looking for Mozambique I saw something strange. I beheld the correct name of the capital. It was Maputo. The name after independence and it was correct. But in the North of Mozambique the names of villages were the old Portuguese ones!! Very singular! To the person that brought the cheque I said: Is the North of Mozambique by any chance still Portuguese?

And we both laughed heartily with the nonsense!!!