Nacala
Port city in Nampula province, northern Mozambique.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How I Learned to Understand the World | Hans Rosling | setting | From 1979 Rosling was district doctor for a town of about 85,000 and a rural district of 300,000, served by one fifty-bed hospital. |
| How I Learned to Understand the World | Hans Rosling | subject | Agneta tells how a poor couple revealed that the pharmacist was selling free pills; Hans investigated and the man was jailed. |
Sub-places
How I Learned to Understand the World — Hans Rosling (2019)
Source: How I Learned to Understand the World · Readwise highlight
Nacala has one of the best deep-water harbors on the east coast of Africa.
- Role: setting
- In the book: From 1979 Rosling was district doctor for a town of about 85,000 and a rural district of 300,000, served by one fifty-bed hospital. Episodes include the bicycle ride that made the town laugh, the tetanus vaccination programme, the beach day with Niheriwa and the wrongly set leg.
- Why it matters: Where he learned practical lessons (change only what must be changed; the two-by-two table) that shaped his later work.
How I Learned to Understand the World — Hans Rosling (2019)
Source: How I Learned to Understand the World · Readwise highlight
Apparently, the Nacala pharmacist was running a private black market in contraceptive pills.
- Role: subject
- In the book: Agneta tells how a poor couple revealed that the pharmacist was selling free pills; Hans investigated and the man was jailed. Earlier, Janet tells him that what he says about Nacala fits her view of Mozambique’s progress.
- Why it matters: Recurring emblem of his early doctor years and his anger at obstruction of public health.