1st Edition

Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994

By Alice Dinerman Copyright 2006
424 Pages
by Routledge

448 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

This groundbreaking study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they bear on the politics of post-Cold-War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. Alice Dinerman offers a detailed chronicle of the Mozambican government’s attempts to revise the country's troubled postcolonial past with a view to negotiating the political challenges posed by the present. In doing so, she... Read more

List of Maps  Acknowledgments  Glossary and Acronyms  Notes on Terminology, Orthography and Currency  Prologue: The Making and Unmaking of the Namapa Naparamas  1. Myth as a ‘Meaning-making’ Device in Post-Independence Mozambique  2. Aspects of Precolonial and Colonial Nampula  3. From ‘Abaixo’ to ‘Chiefs of Production’, 1975-1987  4. The Context, 1987-1994  5. Multipartyism, the Retraditionalization of Local Administration and the Apparent Duplication of State Authority: The Case of Nampula Province  6. Labor, Tribute and Authority  7. In the Name of the State  8. Roots, Routes and Rootlessness: Ruling Political Practice and Mozambican Studies  Bibliography

Biography

Alice Dinerman