"[This book] explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. [The author] tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambiques child labor laws to make his living selling muffins, to a riverside community that has lost dozens of people to crocodile attacks. [He] introduces us to a nation still coming to grips with a long civil war and ...
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"[This book] explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. [The author] tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambiques child labor laws to make his living selling muffins, to a riverside community that has lost dozens of people to crocodile attacks. [He] 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"--Amazon.com.
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