This photo-essay, entitled 'Our Stories: Cartography of a Conflict', is born from the fieldwork carried out in the scope of the research 'Past, Present and Future in the Voice of Women and Girls Affected by the Conflict in Cabo Delgado: A Feminist Analysis', as a way of naming and disseminating the diversity of voices of displaced women, and broadening the visibility of their stories, which have very often been reduced to statistics. The aim of this article is to share their perceptions and demands, their stories and journeys in search of security and possible horizons for their re-existence. This photo-essay shows that women displaced and affected by the conflict need to be named, singularised in their aspirations, needs and struggles. Their life stories are the reason for this work. It is their pain and resilience, their desires, their invisible and visible powers, their strategies for rebuilding their lives, families and communities that we want to make known. Their voices need to be heard, read, understood and placed at the centre of all governmental and civil society interventions for reconstruction, humanitarian response and peacebuilding in Cabo Delgado. Each woman participating in this photo-essay has chosen to share her story and her face, and has decided how to be photographed and represented, with the desire that somehow their trajectories become sources of direct knowledge to guide the paths to Peace in the province. They want to be known and recognised in their dignity, in their determination and perseverance, as well as in their deepest needs. The story of each woman shared in this article is a local and national reference to build a nonviolent future in Mozambique.

Resumo Neste artigo, apresento o xitiki, conhecido como uma prática endógena de poupança e crédito rotativo bastante comum na cidade de Maputo, Moçambique. De maneira a mostrar que esta é uma prática que vai além da sua característica econômica - bastante enfatizada em grande parte dos estudos existentes - descrevo de forma pormenorizada os encontros de um xitiki familiar, evidenciando os diferentes significados que as pessoas atribuem à prática e mostrando também como ele pode ser percebido como um meio de sociabilidade, em que é partilhada uma série de elementos que conectam os participantes uns aos outros, nomeadamente o dinheiro, os afetos, a comida, as relações de vizinhança, informações diversas, conselhos e desabafos.

Abstract In this paper, I present the xitiki, known as an endogenous practice of savings and rotating credit found in the city of Maputo, Mozambique. In order to show that this is a practice that goes beyond its economic characteristic - much emphasized in a large part of the existing studies - I describe in detail the meetings of a family xitiki, showing the different meanings that people attribute to the practice and also showing how it can be perceived as a means of sociability, where a series of elements that are shared connect participants to one another, namely money, affections, food, neighborhood relations, miscellaneous information, advice and venting.