ABSTRACT
In 1968, Sebastião Chithombe left his family's farm in Mozambique's countryside and headed for the city of Lourenço Marques. Mozambique, stretching some 1,500 miles along the coast of southeast Africa, was at the time a colony of Portugal; Lourenço Marques, in the far south, was its capital. Chithombe was 14. He came to the city hoping to earn some cash, buy shoes and nice clothes, and then return to his parents' fields. But staying in the city soon became its own justification.
