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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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Gibson, p 274; Chilcote, p 50, seems to say that the
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Its founding leader was 740:Frente de Libertação de Moçambique 522:Besides these groups a newspaper, 14: 695:Tanganyika African National Union 679:Moçambique National African Union 881:History of Portuguese Mozambique 420: 409: 42: 594:All-African Peoples' Conference 563:, left Portugal and settled in 193:People's Republic of Mozambique 94:People's Republic of Mozambique 754:Mozambican War of Independence 553:Casa dos Estudantes do Império 532:Casa dos Estudantes do Império 82:Mozambican War of Independence 1: 463:Groups interested in freeing 111:Recent history (1993–present) 855:African Liberation Movements 701:was founding president, and 691:Kenya African National Union 902: 886:Rebel groups in Mozambique 876:20th century in Mozambique 708:A third organisation, the 812:was set up for mulattoes. 686:Mocambique Maconde Union 546:Movimento Anti-Colonista 759:Portuguese Colonial War 551:as an outgrowth of the 60:Pre-colonial Mozambique 557:Mário Pinto de Andrade 198:Republic of Mozambique 130:Independence movements 70:Independence movements 616:) and Nyasaland (now 188:Portuguese Mozambique 65:Portuguese Mozambique 561:Marcelino dos Santos 99:Mozambican Civil War 634:. 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Index

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
Manica

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