chinese construction compound for the new police station – next to the benguela railway tracks
The former Portuguese slave warehouse, spitting distance from the beach. From here countless men, women and children were loaded onto boats and sent through the middle passage to Brazil, the Caribbean and occasionally North America. It’s now a museum of archeology and graveyard for old cars.
alfonsa does jeremy’s hair. bella (aka malouca) joins. jimmy gets mosquito bombed (chotox). filomena takes him to the clinic to get his salmonella and malaria results.
on the trip to cubal, we somehow ended up on top of the train. the locomotive broke down and they sent one from lobito to push us from behind – to try to start the engine at the front of the train, sort of like when you set a car running down hill to try to jump start it. anyway, we got out of the train when we were stopped and decided to film…suddenly the train started to move, so we jumped up on top of it so as not to be left out in the countryside. i happened to jump up on the locomotive. jim jumped on the next car with all the police and train officials who also scrambled at the last moment not to be left behind. it was all very james bond, as jim said. by the way, that little black metal thing to my left, is the only thing keeping me from flying off the train. and the mechanic is looking inside the locomotive, trying to fix it. i ended up interviewing him right there and then. not so sure how good the sound turned out….
Huambo. Okitiuka Orphanage. Wilker Flores does an acoustic version of a song he did before with the electric guitar. Two of the kids living there decided to join in with drums.
