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Mozambique's Samora Machel : a life cut short

Title
Mozambique's Samora Machel : a life cut short / Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman ; foreword by Albie Sachs.
Author
Isaacman, Allen F.
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2020]

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Additional Authors
  • Isaacman, Barbara
  • Sachs, Albie, 1935-
Description
257 pages : illustrations; 18 cm.
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"--
Series Statement
Ohio short histories of Africa
Uniform Title
Ohio short histories of Africa.
Subject
  • Machel, Samora, 1933-1986
  • To 1999
  • Presidents > Mozambique > 20th century > Biography
  • Nationalists > Mozambique > Biography
  • Nationalists
  • Politics and government
  • Presidents
  • Mozambique > Politics and government > To 1975
  • Mozambique > Politics and government > 1975-1994
  • Mozambique
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.1950-63 -- 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
Call Number
Sc C 21-51
ISBN
  • 9780821424230
  • 0821424238
LCCN
2020016049
OCLC
1149296795
Author
Isaacman, Allen F., author.
Title
Mozambique's Samora Machel : a life cut short / Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman ; foreword by Albie Sachs.
Publisher
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2020]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Ohio short histories of Africa
Ohio short histories of Africa.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note
AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.
Chronological Term
To 1999
Added Author
Isaacman, Barbara, author.
Sachs, Albie, 1935- writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
Sc C 21-51
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