TY - BOOK AU - Isaacman,Allen F. AU - Sachs,Albie AU - Isaacman,Barbara TI - Mozambique's Samora Machel: a life cut short T2 - Ohio short histories of Africa SN - 0821424238 AV - DT3393 .I73 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Athens : PB - Ohio University Press KW - Machel, Samora, KW - Presidents KW - Mozambique KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Nationalists KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - To 1975 KW - 1975-1994 KW - Biographies N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -