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S is for Samora
- A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream
Engelsk Paperback
S is for Samora
- A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream
Engelsk Paperback

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Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory against Portuguese colonialism in 1974, and the following year became independent Mozambique''s first President. He died eleven years later in a mysterious plane crash. Drawing on stories, speeches, documents, and the memories of those who knew him, this biography presents the many different faces of the man Nelson Mandela called ''a true African revolutionary''. Machel was a trained nurse who became a consummate military strategist, a farmer''s son with the diplomatic skills first to tread the tightrope between China and the Soviet Union and then to charm Margaret Thatcher, a man of the people who found himself utterly alone, a dedicated seeker of peace who never saw anything but war. The book examines the discourse of equality, liberty and comradeship that flourished during the 1960s and 1970s in the liberation struggles of the countries of southern Africa, in the face of the dominant rhetoric of the cold war. It meditates on the different languages through which the Mozambican dream was articulated: the linguistic currencies of anti-colonialism, of anti-racism, and of Marxism- Leninism, while exploring the gaps between then and now, between Mozambicans and the western idealists who wanted to be part of their new society, and between the polyglottal Mozambicans themselves.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781849041942
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1849041946
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Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2012
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
218mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2012
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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