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The slogan of "Africa for Africans" is a philosophical lie in defiance of Christian civilization and the events of today prove that it is communism and Islam who are seeking in this way to impose their civilizations." On the other hand, they have tried to add a little sociology and economics and to reduce the religious content. One such apologist, a Brazilian, Gilbertc Freyre, was extremely influential 10 years ago with his theory of "Luso-tropicaJ ism", in which he accounted for the supposed success of the Portuguese Empire b} certain cultural characteristics of the Portuguese peoples The most essential, however, of these cultural characteristics turns out to be i kind of Catholic universality which, he claims, causes them to play down race ai nationality: "Portuguese success in the tropics .... is largely due to the fact that ., their expansion in the tropics has been less ethnocentric, less that of a people whose activities are centred in their race and their deliberately ethnic culture system - than christocentric - that is a people who consider themselves more Christian than European.!t This contention, that the Portuguese are less conscious of their race thar other Europeans, and thus less inclined towards racial discrimination both in the administration of their colonies and in their personal dealings with the peoples of the tropical world, has become the backbone of the official Portuguee version of the moral role of Portuguese colonialism? Salazal, in a statement tt Life in 1962, put it - "These contacts have never involved the slightest idea of superiority or racial discrimination .... I think I can say that the distinguishing feature of Portuguese Africa .... is the primacy which we have always attached and will continue to attach to the enhancement of the value and dignity of man without distinction of colour or creed, in the light of the principles of the civilization we carried to the populations who were in every way distinct from ourselves." Prof. Jorge Dias, the leading Portuguese ethonographer, backs this up with an elaborate explanation couched in more ethnocentric terms than Freyre1s: "I believe that the great success in the relations of the Portuguese with the populations of other continents, some of which still prevail with the same stability and vigour, whilst others have given place to new and entirely original sociaties in the history of mankind, like Brazil, are the consequence of a sui-qeneris form of etxhnocentricism. In fact, the Portuguese do not need to affirm themselves by denying ...
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-179~04 |
Filename | CENPA-179~04.tiff |
Full text | The slogan of "Africa for Africans" is a philosophical lie in defiance of Christian civilization and the events of today prove that it is communism and Islam who are seeking in this way to impose their civilizations." On the other hand, they have tried to add a little sociology and economics and to reduce the religious content. One such apologist, a Brazilian, Gilbertc Freyre, was extremely influential 10 years ago with his theory of "Luso-tropicaJ ism", in which he accounted for the supposed success of the Portuguese Empire b} certain cultural characteristics of the Portuguese peoples The most essential, however, of these cultural characteristics turns out to be i kind of Catholic universality which, he claims, causes them to play down race ai nationality: "Portuguese success in the tropics .... is largely due to the fact that ., their expansion in the tropics has been less ethnocentric, less that of a people whose activities are centred in their race and their deliberately ethnic culture system - than christocentric - that is a people who consider themselves more Christian than European.!t This contention, that the Portuguese are less conscious of their race thar other Europeans, and thus less inclined towards racial discrimination both in the administration of their colonies and in their personal dealings with the peoples of the tropical world, has become the backbone of the official Portuguee version of the moral role of Portuguese colonialism? Salazal, in a statement tt Life in 1962, put it - "These contacts have never involved the slightest idea of superiority or racial discrimination .... I think I can say that the distinguishing feature of Portuguese Africa .... is the primacy which we have always attached and will continue to attach to the enhancement of the value and dignity of man without distinction of colour or creed, in the light of the principles of the civilization we carried to the populations who were in every way distinct from ourselves." Prof. Jorge Dias, the leading Portuguese ethonographer, backs this up with an elaborate explanation couched in more ethnocentric terms than Freyre1s: "I believe that the great success in the relations of the Portuguese with the populations of other continents, some of which still prevail with the same stability and vigour, whilst others have given place to new and entirely original sociaties in the history of mankind, like Brazil, are the consequence of a sui-qeneris form of etxhnocentricism. In fact, the Portuguese do not need to affirm themselves by denying ... |
Archival file | Volume12/CENPA-179~04.tiff |