In 2001, I went to visit my sister and her husband, who were living in Mozambique. They were living in Pemba, a city in the north (not to be confused with Pemba Island), and it took over 24 hours to get there: we had to fly London - Amsterdam - Johannesberg - Maputo - two additional stops - Pemba. It was the Christmas after 9/11, and in one of the small airports, on a wall next to the broken X-Ray machine, was a printed off paper sign that read 'Following the events of October 11th, unauthorised people are no longer allowed in restricted parts of the airport.' Somebody had crossed out October in biro and written 'September'. In the market in Pemba, you could buy T-Shirts featuring an image of Osama Bin Laden, or the Twin Towers with planes crashed into them. I felt a long way away from home.
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Vegetable Dreams
Vegetable Dreams
In 2001, I went to visit my sister and her husband, who were living in Mozambique. They were living in Pemba, a city in the north (not to be confused with Pemba Island), and it took over 24 hours to get there: we had to fly London - Amsterdam - Johannesberg - Maputo - two additional stops - Pemba. It was the Christmas after 9/11, and in one of the small airports, on a wall next to the broken X-Ray machine, was a printed off paper sign that read 'Following the events of October 11th, unauthorised people are no longer allowed in restricted parts of the airport.' Somebody had crossed out October in biro and written 'September'. In the market in Pemba, you could buy T-Shirts featuring an image of Osama Bin Laden, or the Twin Towers with planes crashed into them. I felt a long way away from home.