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.
Allen and Barbara Isaacman lived through many of these changes in Mozambique and bring personal recollections together with archival research and interviews with others who knew Machel or participated in events of the revolutionary or post ...
This volume takes stock of the discourse of equality, liberty, and comradeship that motivated the liberation struggles of Machel's people and other southern African communities in the 1960s and 1970s, all in the face of a dominant Cold War ...
First published by Panaf in 1989, this was the first major biography of Samora Machel after his death in 1986. The author, a journalist who had known Machel since 1970,...
Samora Machel, an African Revolutionary: Selected Speeches and Writings
Mozambique: Sowing the Seeds of Revolution
Mozambique: A Luta Continua!
Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa : Politics and Popular Movements in the Transkei and Eastern Cape , 1890-1930 , by William Beinart and Colin Bundy ( 1986 ) 41. Legitimating the Illegitimate : State , Markets , and Resistance in ...
Land. of. Hope. I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue That prisoners call the ... Down by the South African border at Komatipoort the lush quality of the banana-growing farm land on the South ...
This book seeks to distill this complex history, and to understand why, twenty-five years after the Peace Accord, Mozambicans still remain among the poorest people in the world.
A story of war and peace in Mozambique and beyond, Memories at Low Altitude spans four decades of southern African history, from the point of view of one of its main protagonists.