What Would Julius Nyerere Do?
Recent and current leaders in Tanzania like to be compared to Mwalimu Nyerere. Take current president, John Magufuli. He has been working hard to claim Nyerere’s mantle.
Frelimo
Racial nationalism and the political imagination
The little-known story of how US-based Pan Africanists responded to white racism and a corrupt school system by founding their own schools in the 1960s and 1970s.
A Luta Continua
In what is a victory for media freedom, a Mozambican judge rules it is “perfectly acceptable in a democracy" to criticize your leaders.
The wounded buffalo
President Filipe Nyusi's government will be more remembered for preventing protests by an increasingly disenfranchised Mozambican public.
Eu Sou Cistac
What the murder of a well known constitutional lawyer and professor means for Mozambique.
How Frelimo rehabilitated Renamo in time for Mozambique’s Elections
An interview with political scientist Domingos Manuel de Rosário, of Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, about the October 2014 elections.
How serious is Renamo’s pro-war rhetoric?
One mitigating factor: The Mozambican opposition movement is weak — in terms of political impact, financial resources, popular support, and military resources.
The Last Prostitute
Licínio Azevedo's "Virgin Margarida" is a critical look into Mozambique's past — its re-education camps.
Mozambique, the new frontier of global capitalism
What is being cultivated at the new frontier of global capitalism — and for whom?