ABSTRACT
On June 2, 1990 Chisola Jorgeta Pezo2 and her friend, Zhinga, set off down a well-trod path to dig cassava roots near the Kavungo River, from which her village takes its name. Food was scarce; Angola was in the midst of a long-running civil war and, although it was dangerous to move about, the villagers of Kavungo were forced to take risks. The path from Kavungo to the cassava field was not known to have been mined. But then again, with landmines one is never quite certain. And so it was that Chisola’s life intersected with the remnants of a globalized arms industry that continues to sow death and destruction throughout much of the “lesser developed” world.
