This conversation serves as a retrospective on Naita Ussene, as a photographer, and his country, Mozambique, as his muse. In the same way that Allen Ginsburg spoke of Columbia University in Harlem as the institutional backdrop for the Beat generation, Ussene speaks of Tempo magazine in Maputo as the training ground for a—as yet un-monikered—generation of Mozambican writers, journalists, and photographers who came of age side-by-side with the country’s independence in 1975. That generation
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