Friday, August 28, 2009

The Mechanics of Mozambique

This is Cremildo Fernando Cumbane, a 25 year-old mechanic’s assistant, at his workplace in Inhambane town. In driving your own car around Mozambique, you meet a lot of mechanics of varying skill levels and with greatly varying equipment and inventive ideas for how to fix your car. I’ve been interviewing the people I meet around the country, and like anywhere, mechanics here are not short on opinions - even if they are sometimes short of the right tools.
Don't judge a mechanic by the graveyard of vehicles in front. Despite appearances, some of the cars that come to this business to be fixed do actually drive away again, but not all.

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