I'm from Mozambique.

If I hadn't left Mozambique, my football career would have died.

— Eusebio

But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up…

— Emma Thompson

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political…

— Henning Mankell

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and…

— Carl Sagan

This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one…

— Neil Gaiman

Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not…

— Henning Mankell

When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter,…

— Henning Mankell

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

— Daniel Espinosa

This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest of them…

— Neil Gaiman

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

— Paul Theroux

The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread…

— Miriam Makeba

The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their…

— Henning Mankell

Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans…

— Henning Mankell

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to…

— Mariella Frostrup