Francisco Witonda tends a bar in a small shack on one of the streetcorners of Katima Mulilo, the last Namibian town before the border with Zambia. He runs a small repair business next to it to make some extra money.

He’s originally from Menonge, lived for a while in Cuito Canavale, but lost most of his family in the Angolan civil war. As a child, he fled with his surviving mother and his cousin to Rundu. They moved to Windhoek for a while, but then his mother and his cousin died, so he returned on his own back to Rundu. He ended up in Katima Mulilo when border troubles broke out at Calai. His oldest brother died in Cuito Canavale, his youngest brother fled with his stepfather to Luanda, the only one left from his family is his father back in Cuito.

His dream is to return, Cuito is a good and fertile place, perfect to tend fruit and vegetables, not as in Namibia, where most fruits are the imported ones found in South African supermarkets.

Originally uploaded by gert.