Foreword -- The Frontier of Culture -- Our Poor Rich People -- A Word of Advice and Some Advice without Words -- What Africa Does the African Writer Write About? -- The Fly or the Spider? -- Citizenship in Search of its City -- The Brazilian Sertão in the Mozambican Savannah -- Animal Conservation: A Noah-less Ark? -- Waters of My Beginning -- Languages We Don't Know We Know -- The Seven Dirty Shoes -- Dreaming of Home -- Travelling Fire Raisers -- The Planet of the Frayed Socks -- Half a Future -- Baring One's Voice -- The Tangles Ball of Wool -- What if Obama Were African? -- Nutmegged by a Verse -- The Waters of Biodiversity -- As if the Sea had Another Shore -- The China Within Us -- The City on the Veranda of Time -- Mozambique: Twenty-five Years -- A Sea of Exchange, An Ocean of Myths -- The Sweet Taste of Sura -- Land of Water and Rain -- Flying Places -- A Boat in teh Sky over Munhava.