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Mozambique’s Samora Machel A Life Cut Short 1st Edition

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Full Title

Mozambique’s Samora Machel A Life Cut Short 1st Edition

Author(s)

Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9780821447208, 9780821424230

Publisher

Ohio University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The precipitous rise and controversial fall of a formidable African leader. Samora Machel (1933–1986), the son of small-town farmers, led his people through a war against their Portuguese colonists and became the first president of the People’s Republic of Mozambique. Machel’s military successes against a colonial regime backed by South Africa, Rhodesia, the United States, and its NATO allies enhanced his reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed people of Southern Africa. In 1986, during the country’s civil war, Machel died in a plane crash under circumstances that remain uncertain. Allen and Barbara Isaacman lived through many of these changes in Mozambique and bring personal recollections together with archival research and interviews with others who knew Machel or participated in events of the revolutionary or post-revolutionary years.