“And for many hours Sérgio Veiga sat and told me the new episodes of what he called O Quente Aconchego da Mãe Negra. Slowly, Sérgio became my private griot (story teller), and I saw that rare wisdom in him of the old storytellers of Mozambique. […] An so this book happened to him, seductive like a pray to its predator, in a revealing and hiding game so common to writers and hunters. O Quente Aconchego da Mãe Negra is, after all, one of the versions of the impossible autobiography of this man who is a fisher, a hunter, a painter, a traveler, a sailor, an environmentalist, a television documentaries’ producer, a cameraman, a diver”. Preface by Mia Couto.