For more than 30 years on stage, he was working with Manuela Soeiro when the Avenida Theater came to life in Maputo, then he returned to his Pemba to found the” Tambo Tambulani Tambo” Training Center for stage and visual arts: Vitor Raposo organizes here courses on theater and music, concerts and shows. Every year in July, he also organizes a great festival dedicated to theater and folk dances, festival  attended by companies from all over the world.

The face marked by time, skinny but always smiling, energetic, yes that’s it, Vitor is an”energetic”  person. He tells us that he has acted in Portugal, he shows us with pride the spaces of his association, the stage, the office with some stage masks, the small houses where they put up the guests.

We tell him that we have visited the Avenida Theater, we have met the Machaka group, Luarte, Alvim Cossa and finally him. He looks at us and replies laughing: “You have seen all the theater of Mozambique.”

He takes us to get a drink in a local bar, a bar that has a huge baobab tree in the center on which you can climb and sit. It’s a Baobar.

After a while the scene is like this: Bruno speaks in Italian to Vitor, we ask him if he understands, he nods. He answers in Portuguese and we ask Bruno if everything is clear, Bruno says yes. They understood each other very well.

And alcohol had nothing to do with it, I swear! It was pure magic, we talked about theater, the chronic lack of funds, companies that disappear.