Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mozambique's Samora Machel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1149296795

Responsibility statement

Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman ; foreword by Albie Sachs

Series statement

Ohio short histories of Africa

Sub title

a life cut short

Summary

"From his anticolonial military leadership to the presidency of independent, communist Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. His controversial death, however, continues to raise questions about warring political and economic ideologies"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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