(Excerpt from the book ‘The Greek community in Mozambique’)
Panos Macropoulos left Smyrna in 1919 and immigrated to Mozambique. After an arduous journey of 40 days he arrived in Lourenco Marques. Then, he embarked on a ship and after 40 hours he reached Jangamo. There, he rode a horse for 25km through the jungle in order to reach the farm of another Greek where he would work. During the first year of his staying, he lived in a round hut with only a bed and table in it. The heat was unbearable. Tropical diseases like malaria and wild animal attacks made everyone’s daily life a true hell. However, Macropoulos worked hard and within the next decades became one of the pioneer industrialists in the history of Mozambique.
