What would Obama?s 2004 campaign have looked like if itunfolded in an African nation? What does it mean to be an Africanwriter today? How do writers and poets from all continents teachus to cross the sertão, the savannah, the barren places where we?reforced to walk within ourselves? Bringing together the best piecesfrom his previously untranslated nonfiction collections, alongsidenew material presented here for the first time in any language, Pensativities offers English readers a taste of Mia Couto as essayist, lecturer, and journalist - with essays on cosmopolitanism, poverty, culture gaps, conservation, and more. | Pensativities by Mia Couto, Paperback | Indigo Chapters