Author: Sérgio Raimundo (Sérgio Raimundo)

O julgamento de Jesus Cristo em Moçambique…
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The trial of Jesus Christ in Mozambique...

The clerk, fingernail-clawed, would hit the keyboard looking for the letter "J" to write the name "Jesus" on the record. And the honorable judge would rummage through all the drawers of the alphabet for the right word to dictate to the clerk. "He is from Nazareth. Nazareth with a Z." And the clerk, who might have had

O que se passa em Niassa!
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What's going on in Niassa!

Some cable connected the attacks from Cabo Delgado to Niassa. Nobody knows how many more cables will be connected by the so-called insurgents throughout the country. There are already thousands of displaced people in Niassa, there are thousands of families that are beginning to put forward graves for their loved ones, there are thousands of mothers who are already beginning to mend their sleeves...

Senhor ministro e a sopa do Natal
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Minister and the Christmas Soup

I still have vivid images in my mind of children from that kindergarten; dirty children, chained in wheelchairs like animals, without the slightest strength to take a spoonful of soup to their mouths, and others burning in urine-soaked pajamas. I can't forget one of the employees who called the children with animal names; there was...

Um poeta que examina a nação…
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A poet who examines the nation

Burdened with doubts about her condition, the nation decided to go to a poet's office to be examined. She arrived at the office and the first thing she did was to sprawl on the waiting stool and trim her dirty fingernails with her teeth. With a ticket in her hand she waited her turn to be