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5%OFFSarah Lefanu - S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream - 9781849041942 - V9781849041942
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S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream

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Description for S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream Paperback. 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'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BGH; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTR; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
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. He died eleven years later in a mysterious plane crash. Drawing on stories, speeches, documents, and the memories of those who knew him, this biography presents the many different faces of the man Nelson Mandela called 'a true African revolutionary'. Machel was a trained nurse who became a consummate military strategist, a farmer's son with the diplomatic skills first to tread the tightrope between China and the Soviet Union and then to charm Margaret Thatcher, a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849041942
SKU
V9781849041942
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Ref
99-1

About Sarah Lefanu
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.

Reviews for S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream
'This is a fascinating book about Mozambique's recent history and transition from colony to republic, and the role of Samora Machel in that process, written from a unique, personal viewpoint by a former cooperante. [...] It is attractively, frankly, and engagingly written ... a genuinely innovative contribution to the literature on Mozambican history and society.'
African Studies Bulletin
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