The visit of the governor

Mozambique is organized in 10 regions, each of them with a governor. I had the privilege to see a live the visit of the governor to the village of Nicane! For days that no one was talking about anything else, everything needed to be perfect! The roads clean… no grass, sheet from the goats or stones… the place for the stage needed to be perfect! The colors from FRELIMO and the picture of the president couldn’t miss… The “chefe do posto” (kind of president of the municipality) was supervising everything, what personage! The day before there was a comity of people to verify if everything was according with the plans, lot of last minute changes (there was dude painting until the moment that the big boss arrived). When I wake up there was a peregrination at the street, people coming from other villages, some of them walking for several hours. Almost time for the arriving, 11:30 was the plan… not too bad he arrive 1h later… but last minute the assistant of the “chefe the posto” passed with black shoes in a plastic bag, the chefe de posto was still with flip-flops… the black shoes need to be safe just for the important moment! Everyone else was ready, all of them with the best cloths that have, is not every day that the governor comes to your village… Was interesting to see the ones that have money for shoes to see how do they behave, their shoes are huge, like when you are kid and you want always a bigger shoe juts o show that you are growing! Here with big shoes you show respect! Soundly several 4x4 vehicles arrived with the governor comity… there was a contrast… a group of fat people that just passed by, eat everything, even took the leftovers and the gifts while the skinny people was smiling, waiving and looking…