I did indeed make in back from Mozambique. It was a beautiful country, with really friendly nice people, and oh so delicious seafood. Also, the people who backpack Mozambique are significantly more mature and have been so many more cool places than the students who populated the many South African backpackers that I stayed in.
I am back in Fresno now, and don't plan on writing anything else on this blog, unless I suddenly find new reflections that need to be written somewhere.

• South Africa is a frustrating country with a tumultuous history
• Its so beautiful, and full of natural resources, there is a reason that everyone has been continually fighting over it for the past 400 years
• South African activists have a strong tradition of combining theory/academia with ground-level action. If it does not stem from actual human rights work on the ground, it is not considered legitimate research. Not just experiements, or commenting on past happenings, but to be actually developed as a part of activism. That is definitely something to learn from.
• apartheid does not end overnight.
• South Africa is a country where you do not escape your race ever. most of the backpackers I met in Maputo said that SA was the worst that they had ever experienced White-consciousness. You don't ever escape from the guilt of your race, no matter who you are around. (As opposed to remote corners of the South and Southeast Asia, SubSaharan Africa, South and Central America, where the backpackers had spent significant time being the only white face around)
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