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
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.
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