Angolan poet and scholar, José Luís Mendonça, discusses Angola’s publishing industry and literary scene—past and present—and the influence of other poet-activists on his nearly fifty-year career.

This conversation serves as a retrospective on Naita Ussene, as a photographer, and his country, Mozambique, as his muse.

As a majority-black but multi-racial society, Mozambique’s nationalist rhetoric espouses full political equality of citizens of all racial groups; social integration, however, for both new and old immigrants (and their non-binary descendants) is still individually negotiated.