Abstract
Mia Couto was born in 1955 in the Mozambican city of Beira. In the early 1970s he moved to Maputo, the capital, to begin medical studies, but soon switched to journalism. He was a former director of the Mozambique Information Agency (AIM) and Tempo magazine; he is currently on the staff of Noticias. Adewale Maja-Pearce asked him about his own experience of the relationship between journalists and the government.