resurfacing
After two weeks in dead zones, we’ve finally found wireless in Nomba Village. You’ll be able to feel our presence via the blog. We plan on making up for lost posts.
Here’s a backlogged post from Nampula:
When globalization comes a’knocking, you’d better have something on the table. Gito Antonio has rice, homegrown on his machamba.
Gito is a rice farmer and culture blogger in Nampula. His blog speaks English and covers the beginnings and ends of Makua culture (ie, birth, marriage, circumcision and death), rituals which are generally taboo in spoken conversation.
If Gito is any indicator, the developing world is slowly immigrating to the blogosphere. Rent is cheaper than the talk, but there’s still something to be said for a 26-year-old father of three dissecting his tribal cultural in his second language via the internet. The Atlantic never felt so small.
Globalization isn’t all good by any means. It tends towards franchising, which often dilutes local cultures and separates people from the knowledge and materials necessary for meaningful survival. But, in some cases, like Gito’s, globalization lends a microphone: whether you’re raising rice, awareness, or both.
