Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: HamiltonChiquinha Setenta left her home earlier than usual.She had to take care of some money concerns.A mixed-race female crook from Ui'ge owed her five hundred dollars for some garments she had brought from Rio de Janeiro, a month ago, and she hadn't been able to receive the money.Every time she sent word to the woman the latter would reply that she would settle the mat- ter by next week.But so far she hadn't!Whenever Chiquinha went to where the woman lived she was never there, or she would send word saying that she wasn't.So on this occasion she decided to get out really early to catch that bitch (obviously, Chiquinha Setenta's wording was ruder. ..) while she was still in bed.That mixed-race woman should give her the five hundred dollars on that very day, for better or for worse, because Chiquinha had just bought a cell phone from a neighbor, and she had to pay for it.As a businesswoman she obviously needed to own a cell phone and, what's more, she could not afford to have a reputation as someone who didn't pay her bills on time or had bad credit.When Chiquinha thought about the cell phone she discreetly patted her purse to confirm that the new possession was where it should be.The reason for her concern was quite basic: she was sitting in a cab.For those who have never ridden in a cab in Luanda, let's say that taxis in that city may be less comfortable than those in New York, but are, perhaps, more exciting.Chiquinha was squeezed in between a peddler, carrying a basin filled with okra and jimboa, a student with a swollen head and straightened hair, whose
DOI: 10.62791/ya6v7q60
Author: João Melo
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4401024921