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VISITORS IN FREE MOZAMBIQUE
In November, 1971, we had the opportunity to visit the
liberated zones in Cabo Delgado in Mozambique.
Our mission was to produce programmes for the Swedish
Television to document an objective report about the
reality in the liberated areas of Mozambique. Our main
interest was focused on the different social aspects, how
a new society is created, meanwhile the liberation war is
going on.
As far as possible we wanted to get the possibility of
identification with the Mozambican people, a possibility
to identify the circumstances the people are facing, well
aware about the wall in between their reality and that of
the Swedish and western TV-audience. We wanted to
break through the strange surface and the constant mistrust most people have towards everything that they feel
as (or consider as) propaganda, dogmatic or not.
It is first when people start to recognise the reality and
identify themselves in it they start to act.
We visited Mozambique for about two weeks. Together
with FRELIMO we marched through wide areas of the
liberated zones in the Province of Cabo Delgado. We
saw with our own eyes how FRELIMO has built up
new administration in these districts, the Portuguese
were nowhere present but in the planes high above us or
in some isolated posts. There was no doubt about that
FRELIMO is the functioning Government of these zones.
We visited administrative centres, military bases, civilian
villages. We saw schools, hospitals, orphanages, co-operatives. Everywhere we found evidence of
the consciousness of what the war is
about: to fight the Portuguese colonia- ,
lism, but perhaps still more important, to
create new conditions for social life -
health service, possibilities of education,
all those things that create the base for an
equal and human society, which the Portuguese have denied the Mozambicans for
hundreds of years.
We have been in North Vietnam before
and we can see many similarities between
the Vietnamese war and the liberation
war in Mozambique. For example the
terror bombing of the civilian population,
the creation of ((strategical hamlets», the
use of napalm, the isolation and desperation of the colonial enemy. In Mozambique we often heard during the nights
how the Portuguese posts d?sperate.ly
fired their canons right out into the dark
bush, without knowing any target.
The most important similarity however,
is the consciousness and clearness of the
people about the methods and the aim of
the struggle. For us Swedes, who have
not been involved in any war in 150 years,
it can seem incredible that people can
continue to work and live under those
conditions, the bombing, the terror. But
Lennart Maimer
Ingela Romare
18
Object Description
| Title | Mozambique revolution, no. 49 (1971 Oct.-Dec.) |
| Description | Contents: Editorial - FRELIMO's visit to socialist Asia (p. 1); War communique - A military report (p. 3); Angola: Facets of the freedom struggle - An interview with MPLA's president (p. 5); The growth of a new culture - FRELIMO at a Unesco seminar (p.10); Images of the visit to the socialist Asia (p.12); Our internationalist duty (p.14); Visitors in free Mozambique - Comments on FRELIMO's activities by foreigners (p.15); Sowing the seeds of liberation - Directives issued by FRELIMO's president for the new production cycle (p. 20). |
| 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 | -18.6696821,35.5273467 |
| Coverage date | 1960/1971-10 |
| Creator | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) |
| Publisher (of the Original Version) | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Department of Information |
| Place of Publication (of the Origianal Version) | Dar Es Salaam, U.R. of Tanzania |
| Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Date issued | 1971-10/1971-12 |
| Type |
texts images |
| Format | 28 p. |
| Format (aat) | newsletters |
| 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-347 |
Description
| Title | CENPA-347~20 |
| Filename | CENPA-347~20.tiff |
| Full text | VISITORS IN FREE MOZAMBIQUE In November, 1971, we had the opportunity to visit the liberated zones in Cabo Delgado in Mozambique. Our mission was to produce programmes for the Swedish Television to document an objective report about the reality in the liberated areas of Mozambique. Our main interest was focused on the different social aspects, how a new society is created, meanwhile the liberation war is going on. As far as possible we wanted to get the possibility of identification with the Mozambican people, a possibility to identify the circumstances the people are facing, well aware about the wall in between their reality and that of the Swedish and western TV-audience. We wanted to break through the strange surface and the constant mistrust most people have towards everything that they feel as (or consider as) propaganda, dogmatic or not. It is first when people start to recognise the reality and identify themselves in it they start to act. We visited Mozambique for about two weeks. Together with FRELIMO we marched through wide areas of the liberated zones in the Province of Cabo Delgado. We saw with our own eyes how FRELIMO has built up new administration in these districts, the Portuguese were nowhere present but in the planes high above us or in some isolated posts. There was no doubt about that FRELIMO is the functioning Government of these zones. We visited administrative centres, military bases, civilian villages. We saw schools, hospitals, orphanages, co-operatives. Everywhere we found evidence of the consciousness of what the war is about: to fight the Portuguese colonia- , lism, but perhaps still more important, to create new conditions for social life - health service, possibilities of education, all those things that create the base for an equal and human society, which the Portuguese have denied the Mozambicans for hundreds of years. We have been in North Vietnam before and we can see many similarities between the Vietnamese war and the liberation war in Mozambique. For example the terror bombing of the civilian population, the creation of ((strategical hamlets», the use of napalm, the isolation and desperation of the colonial enemy. In Mozambique we often heard during the nights how the Portuguese posts d?sperate.ly fired their canons right out into the dark bush, without knowing any target. The most important similarity however, is the consciousness and clearness of the people about the methods and the aim of the struggle. For us Swedes, who have not been involved in any war in 150 years, it can seem incredible that people can continue to work and live under those conditions, the bombing, the terror. But Lennart Maimer Ingela Romare 18 |
| Archival file | Volume22/CENPA-347~20.tiff |
