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THE FAILUKE OF PORTUGUESE COLONIALISM IN MOZAMBIQUE
"You shall work to find the place where the rumoured silver is and any
other metals and whether these exist and they can find them in their
land or in others^ you must find how far it is and whether they are
deep underground and work is necessary to extract them, and you shall
bring us samples of them all"
Extract from an ordinance from Manuel I to Baltazar de Castro 15/11/1520
(geoqraphis de Angola - Jose R. de Creez, Arquives de Angola Vol. II)
I. IDEOLOGY AND REALITY
Introduction
"The Portuguese have always regarded colonization as an act to help the
progress of native populations..." writes Professor Marcelo Caetano in his booklet
Colonising Traditions, Principles and Methods of the Portuguese (Lisbon 1951). A
few lines further on in the same work he states;
"In earlier centuries the form which the Portuguese interest in the
natives assumed was the concern of bringing to him the message of the
Gospel so as to lift him out of the darkness of paganism and save his
soul.
Simultaneously, the Portuguese saw the necessity of taking advantage of
the unused riches of the new worlds, to render the land more valuable
and make Europe share in the unheard-of possibilities of the tropical
regions."
This forms a very neat statement of the double standards on which the
Portuguese colonial adventures have been based. On the one hand they were from
the first motivated by the simple search for profit5 on the other hand they have
always been justified in moral, humanitarian and above all religious terms. Most
peoples, when committing acts of aggression, conquest and domination have
attempted an ethical rationale and all the colonial powers proved themselves
fairly adept at making a virtue out of what was profitable. In the case of
Portugal, her "virtue" has always been tied very closely with the Catholic Church
and through this association she has been able to reap political as well as moral
advantages. Caetano complains that
«
"the religious reformation also led to the dissolution of the Empire
since the countries which left the Roman communion failed to respect
the Pontifical Bulls which, in exchange for missionary work committed
to Portugal the newly discovered lands, gave her exclusive sovereignty"
Object Description
| Title | Nationalism and development in Mozambique by Eduardo Mondlane, [ca. Feb.1968] |
| Description | A paper presented to the University of California Project "Brazil-Portuguese Africa", February 27 & 28, 1968. Contents: I - Ideology and reality - Introduction (p.1); Political unity and administrative differentiation (p. 4); Economic solidarity (p. 6); Spiritual assimilation (p.10); II - Confrontation - Introduction (p.1); The paper reforms (p. 3); Cultural resistances (p. 8); From resistance to war (p.12); Teresinha Mbala (p.13); III - Liberation and after - Introduction (p. 1); The Armed Struggle (p. 1); A new social structure (p. 6). |
| Subject (lcsh) |
Nationalism -- Mozambique Self-determination, National Mozambique -- History Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1933-1974 |
| Geographic Subject (Country) | Mozambique |
| Geographic Subject (Continent) | Africa |
| Geographic Coordinates | -18.6696821,35.5273356 |
| Coverage date | 1500/1968 |
| Creator | Mondlane, Eduardo C.. |
| Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Date created | ca. 1968 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 45 p. |
| Format (aat) | essays |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965 |
| Part of subcollection | Mozambique Collection |
| Rights | The University of Southern California has licensed the rights to this material from the Aluka initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit Delaware corporation whose address is 151 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021 |
| Physical access | Original archive is at the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. |
| Repository Name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository Address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository Email | specol@usc.edu |
| Filename | CENPA-179 |
Description
| Title | CENPA-179~02 |
| Filename | CENPA-179~02.tiff |
| Full text | THE FAILUKE OF PORTUGUESE COLONIALISM IN MOZAMBIQUE "You shall work to find the place where the rumoured silver is and any other metals and whether these exist and they can find them in their land or in others^ you must find how far it is and whether they are deep underground and work is necessary to extract them, and you shall bring us samples of them all" Extract from an ordinance from Manuel I to Baltazar de Castro 15/11/1520 (geoqraphis de Angola - Jose R. de Creez, Arquives de Angola Vol. II) I. IDEOLOGY AND REALITY Introduction "The Portuguese have always regarded colonization as an act to help the progress of native populations..." writes Professor Marcelo Caetano in his booklet Colonising Traditions, Principles and Methods of the Portuguese (Lisbon 1951). A few lines further on in the same work he states; "In earlier centuries the form which the Portuguese interest in the natives assumed was the concern of bringing to him the message of the Gospel so as to lift him out of the darkness of paganism and save his soul. Simultaneously, the Portuguese saw the necessity of taking advantage of the unused riches of the new worlds, to render the land more valuable and make Europe share in the unheard-of possibilities of the tropical regions." This forms a very neat statement of the double standards on which the Portuguese colonial adventures have been based. On the one hand they were from the first motivated by the simple search for profit5 on the other hand they have always been justified in moral, humanitarian and above all religious terms. Most peoples, when committing acts of aggression, conquest and domination have attempted an ethical rationale and all the colonial powers proved themselves fairly adept at making a virtue out of what was profitable. In the case of Portugal, her "virtue" has always been tied very closely with the Catholic Church and through this association she has been able to reap political as well as moral advantages. Caetano complains that « "the religious reformation also led to the dissolution of the Empire since the countries which left the Roman communion failed to respect the Pontifical Bulls which, in exchange for missionary work committed to Portugal the newly discovered lands, gave her exclusive sovereignty" |
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