The baobab seed is hard, small and patient. It crosses the dry season inside the fruit, travels from hand to hand, and when it finds soil, it sprouts — far from the tree it came from.
This book is about the seeds of Baobáxia: the ready-made image, a file you write to a USB stick or a disk that becomes a mucua — the computer that keeps a community's archive, works without internet and exchanges knowledge with the other mucuas whenever a path appears.
With the image, setting up a mucua for a school, a cultural centre, a quilombo or a three-day gathering doesn't need someone who knows how to install systems: write it, switch it on, pick an option in a menu, done. At the gathering, people arriving point their phone at a poster, create an account, chat and send photos — all on the mucua's own network, without internet.