Hannah Kelley: Student

I am listening to Radio Moçambique and cracking up.

Partido Popular Moçambique – I think that was the one that just came on – had such a wonderful jingle sang by a man with a tenderly cracking, earnest voice, singing of beautiful coast… “Our Mozambique”…it was cute.

Each party is getting a spot on the national radio. Frelimo spoke, MDM spoke, Renamo spoke, and even what sounded like the ecological party, asking voters to vote “sunflowers” (girassoes) have announced their platforms.

Some of them have clips of people on the street saying that they will vote for one party or the other, which plays the popularity game.

Now a lady is speaking in what sounds like something other than Portuguese, or a very very strong Bantu language (I’m assuming) accent. Some words were nevertheless recognizable. The rest of the spot was fun/vibrant music talking about Mozambique in bright terms. The radio personality came back on to say that it was a spot for “PDD”.

Guebuza’s (Frelimo) spot announced a website that was clearly meant to be official, but had “blogspot” in the subdomain title.

This is good stuff.