Gabriel Paquisi, computer hardware vendor and his Congolese friends at the bar upstairs from the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus.

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The best place to sell Coke is in front of a tank wreck.

Originally uploaded by gert.

Originally uploaded by gert.

It’s after 10 AM when the bus leaves Huambo, 422 km on a road, well, I’ve seen bad roads in Africa, but none over such a distance than this one. Most tarred roads in a damaged state have potholes, this road is one huge pothole with pieces of tar sticking out, 20 cm high. A […]

I’m leaving Huambo from the Praça Nova with one of the little Toyota mini busses, stacked full of luggage. We’re waiting for one extra person to fill the tin to leave. A police patrol walks by and we have to empty the carefully loaded minibus. Everybody has to show his papers. The officer in charge […]

The bakery with the largest turnover of all bakeries in the world.

Originally uploaded by gert.

Originally uploaded by gert.

Originally uploaded by gert.

Dede and Nguito are working at Photo Diamanta, one of the countless little Konica photo labs you can find all over Angola, where you can go for passport photographs and numerous small computer tasks like word and spread sheats.
There’s always one guy form Vietnam running these shops. Maybe I should have asked sponsorship at Konica-Minolta…
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