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Independence movements in Mozambique

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In the 1950s and 1960s, government suppression of radicalism in Mozambique was severe enough that the important national liberation groups all had to carry on their existences outside the country. The first organisation with full intentions toward national liberation was founded by Mozambican exiles
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for Whites born in Mozambique. (In the 1950s the latter organisation opened its doors to non-Whites and fought for a non-racial society.) According to Chilcote, "Africans manifested demands through these organisations by urging moderate reforms in the 1930s and focusing discussion on direct
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was established in the early 1920s. One of the first African weeklies on the continent, it provided an outlet for native dissent. Chilcote, in 1967, wrote that "Although controlled by the Salazar government, it remains African-oriented."
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participation for the urban masses in the 1940s. The government reacted by replacing elected leaders with administrative appointees and by dominating and interfering with the activities of these organisations." When the
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colonial rule and making it an independent nation emerged in the early 1900s, shortly after Portugal had defeated the last of the native chieftaincies and established effective control over the territory.
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By the mid 1950s clandestine political movements had formed. Above ground intellectual nationalism continued: African intellectuals studying at Portuguese universities established the
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was a semi-official centre for African students in Lisbon. It was pronounced subversive and closed by the government in 1965.
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to represent all three parties, UDENAMO, MANU and UNAMI, at the conference where FRAIN was disbanded and replaced by the
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was sympathetic to the nationalists, and in April 1961 UDENAMO moved its headquarters to Tanganyika's capital,
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In June 1962, with encouragement from both the CONCP and Nyerere, UDENAMO, MANU, and UNAMI merged to form the
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and others who sought an African culture, traditional in tone but modern and sophisticated in content." In
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Secretary-General. After Tanganyika's independence in December 1961, MANU moved to Dar es Salaam.
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came partially under government control, the more determined of the nationalists in it formed the
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of Northern Moçambique and Tanganyika. Its members had been inspired, and were supported by, the
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was established earlier as an organisation for Blacks around the time that the
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Frente Revolucionária Africana para a Indêpencia das Colônais Portuguesas
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Confederação das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas
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In 1920 or 1923, a government sponsored organisation, the
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Núcleo dos Estudantes Africanos Secundários de Moçambique
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In February 1961 a second nationalist organisation, the
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Its founding leader was 751:Frente de Libertação de Moçambique 533:Besides these groups a newspaper, 25: 706:Tanganyika African National Union 690:Moçambique National African Union 18:Mozambique African National Union 892:History of Portuguese Mozambique 431: 420: 53: 605:All-African Peoples' Conference 574:, left Portugal and settled in 204:People's Republic of Mozambique 105:People's Republic of Mozambique 765:Mozambican War of Independence 564:Casa dos Estudantes do Império 543:Casa dos Estudantes do Império 93:Mozambican War of Independence 1: 474:Groups interested in freeing 122:Recent history (1993–present) 866:African Liberation Movements 712:was founding president, and 702:Kenya African National Union 913: 897:Rebel groups in Mozambique 887:20th century in Mozambique 719:A third organisation, the 823:was set up for mulattoes. 697:Mocambique Maconde Union 557:Movimento Anti-Colonista 770:Portuguese Colonial War 562:as an outgrowth of the 71:Pre-colonial Mozambique 568:Mário Pinto de Andrade 209:Republic of Mozambique 141:Independence movements 81:Independence movements 627:) and Nyasaland (now 199:Portuguese Mozambique 76:Portuguese Mozambique 572:Marcelino dos Santos 110:Mozambican Civil War 645:. 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Index

Mozambique African National Union
a series
History of Mozambique
Emblem of Mozambique
Pre-colonial Mozambique
Portuguese Mozambique
Independence movements
FRELIMO
Mozambican War of Independence
Lusaka Accord
People's Republic of Mozambique
Mozambican Civil War
RENAMO
Recent history (1993–present)
Independence movements
Jews
Postal history
Rail transport
Kingdom of Mutapa
Kingdom of Tembi
Zulu Kingdom
Gaza Empire
Angoche Sultanate
Portuguese Mozambique
People's Republic of Mozambique
Republic of Mozambique
By province
Cabo Delgado
Gaza
Inhambane

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