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Angonia Photo Album (Tete province, Mozambique)

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Home Brewery

Brewing homemade liquor is common in rural areas where the nearest market and transportation are not easily accessible. Leftover grains (e.g., maize) or veggies (e.g., potatoes) or whatever at hand (e.g., sugarcane), fermented and then distilled (as shown in the photo), turn into clear booze (shochu for Japanese, rum for Jamaican, call you may). Home brewing, though in different styles, was widely practiced in Japan as well up until pretty recently (albeit it was made illegal about 100 years ago).

Sacking Maize

The average yield of maize in the Study Area is a little over 1.0 ton/ha, higher than the national average. Mozambican maize is sold in the eastern provinces of Zambia at landed cost about 40% lower than the local prices. Mozambican farmers do not use (i.e., generally cannot afford) expensive chemical fertilizers as much in maize production as Zambian farmers. Wheat is cultivated in Tsangano, exclusively for export to Malawi.

Carrying Stuff

As a foreigner you may be tempted to ask the local women how they do it; balancing stuff on their heads as they carry it. Then, you realize they would probably itch to ask you how you manage to pick stuff up if they ever see you with chopsticks at meals.

Photos by Ken Kozai (Sanyu Consultants)

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