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Mozambique's Samora Machel : a life cut short / Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman ; foreword by Albie Sachs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ohio short histories of AfricaPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821447208
  • 0821447203
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mozambique's Samora Machel.DDC classification:
  • 967.9051092 23
LOC classification:
  • DT3393 .I83 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: The challenge of representation -- Living colonialism : the making of an insurgent -- The early political education of Samora Machel : the making of a freedom fighter, ca.1940-63 -- The struggle within the struggle, 1962-70 -- Samora and the armed struggle, 1964-75 -- Politics, performance, and people's power, 1975-ca. 1977 -- Samora Machel's marxism and the defense of the revolution, 1977-82 -- The unraveling of Mozambique's socialist revolution, 1983-86 -- Who killed Samora? -- The political afterlife of Samora and the politics of memory -- Conclusion: Samora revisited.
Summary: From his anti-colonial military leadership to the presidency of independent Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. Although killed in a 1987 plane crash, for many Mozambicans his memory lives on as a beacon of hope for the future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: The challenge of representation -- Living colonialism : the making of an insurgent -- The early political education of Samora Machel : the making of a freedom fighter, ca.1940-63 -- The struggle within the struggle, 1962-70 -- Samora and the armed struggle, 1964-75 -- Politics, performance, and people's power, 1975-ca. 1977 -- Samora Machel's marxism and the defense of the revolution, 1977-82 -- The unraveling of Mozambique's socialist revolution, 1983-86 -- Who killed Samora? -- The political afterlife of Samora and the politics of memory -- Conclusion: Samora revisited.

From his anti-colonial military leadership to the presidency of independent Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. Although killed in a 1987 plane crash, for many Mozambicans his memory lives on as a beacon of hope for the future.

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