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

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. This biography presents the many different faces of the man Nelson Mandela called 'a true African revolutionary'.

About the author

Sarah Lefanu is author of the acclaimed biography Rose Macaulay, and of MLA award-winning In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. From 2004 to 2009 she was Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival. She has been RLF Fellow at the University of Exeter, and teaches at the University of Bristol's Department for Lifelong Learning.

Summary

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. This biography presents the many different faces of the man Nelson Mandela called 'a true African revolutionary'.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Lefanu, LeFanu Sarah
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9781849041942
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-194-2
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / South / General, Mozambique, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, African History, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, Biography: historical, political and military, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions