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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: TextSeries: Ohio short histories of AfricaPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press 2020.Edition: 1st edDescription: 257 pagesISBN:
  • 0821424238
  • 9780821424230
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleLOC classification:
  • DT3393 .I73 2020
Contents:
Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Challenge of Representation -- 1. Living Colonialism The Making of an Insurgent -- 2. The Early Political Education of Samora Machel The Making of a Freedom Fighter, ca. 1950-63 -- 3. The Struggle within the Struggle, 1962-70 -- 4. Samora and the Armed Struggle, 1964-75 -- 5. Politics, Performance, and People's Power, 1975-ca. 1977 -- 6. Samora Machel's Marxism and the Defense of the Revolution, 1977-82 -- 7. The Unraveling of Mozambique's Socialist Revolution, 1983-86 -- 8. Who Killed Samora? -- 9. The Political Afterlife of Samora and the Politics of Memory -- Conclusion: Samora Revisited -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Index.
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.

Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Challenge of Representation -- 1. Living Colonialism The Making of an Insurgent -- 2. The Early Political Education of Samora Machel The Making of a Freedom Fighter, ca. 1950-63 -- 3. The Struggle within the Struggle, 1962-70 -- 4. Samora and the Armed Struggle, 1964-75 -- 5. Politics, Performance, and People's Power, 1975-ca. 1977 -- 6. Samora Machel's Marxism and the Defense of the Revolution, 1977-82 -- 7. The Unraveling of Mozambique's Socialist Revolution, 1983-86 -- 8. Who Killed Samora? -- 9. The Political Afterlife of Samora and the Politics of Memory -- Conclusion: Samora Revisited -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Index.

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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