We are on the verge of a data-journalism revolution. That was my big take away from the Hacks/Hackers “Python Web Scraping 101 for Journalists” meetup this past weekend in Washington, D.C.

Mueda is where Mozambique’s uprising against colonial rule started, back in 1960. A memorial and a museum celebrate the event – but that pretty much exhausts the benefits Mueda has derived from its heroic past. Remote and poor, the district got electricity only last year.

It’s almost nine months into my fellowship in Nigeria, yet it seems like there is still so much to be done. Achieving more in the remaining few months will be less of a challenge if the country can find a way to better manage the snowballing religious and political crises. The Islamist terror group Boko Haram claims credit for much of the violence – and has not let up.

It is surprising and sweet in Mueda district to see so many men at the clinics, accompanying their wives, holding children on their laps, bringing them wrapped in a traditional cloth called a capulana, the little ones sometimes nestled on their fathers' chests.

You don’t see this in southern or central Mozambique.