The Real Y2K In Africa, where everything happens at a slower pace, the Millennium bug hit a month late. And in a continent still much removed from the realities of e-everything – business, conferences, travel and information – the disasters predicted by computer breakdowns and meltdowns in Europe and North America came from somewhere else. [...]
Fruit-Fest In November, the mango season begins. Over the past 2 weeks, I began quizzing my Mozambican colleagues and friends on whether they’d seen any mangoes at the market, and went on the lookout for any signs of mango peels. Last November, when I’d only been living in Maputo for less than four months, I [...]
