whats at the intersection of avenidas vladimir lenin and mao tse tung?
The answer, of course, is that we are! We’re in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. After independence from Portugal in 1975, the government was decidedly communist (though they are no longer), as is reflected by their choice of street names in Maputo. The intersection, by the way, is where our hostel is located. At the moment, we’re actually at the American cultural center, which I find very amusing, but they have free internet for citizens, which is the only current advantage to holding an American passport. Woooo!-was I wrong about Swaziland, which is what I get for presuming to write about a country after only being in it for 2 days. Swaziland is very much NOT the last absolute monarchy. There is a parliament and there are elections, though the king is still head of state and consequently has lots of power. It’s rather like Morocco, in that sense. (It’s terrible, really–for the rest of my life I’m going to compare everything to Morocco-sorry about that!) Also, our mini-bus ride int
