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VISITORS IN FREE MOZAMBIQUE First of all I must thank FRELIMO people to have permitted, made arrangements and thus helped my travelling in your country of Mozambique, as a photographer and as a member of the Japan Anti-Apartheid Committee. Inside your country, I saw many fighting, working, and studying people in many shambas or in bases, schools and in hospitals. Your activities are almost the same as those in your comrades' country, Guine Bissau, where I similarly visited in 1971. I must say I am deeply impressed with the progress of your struggle, and I did see with my own eyes how Portuguese have been exploiting your villages. And the cruel forced labour, which resemble gum-juice squeezed out from cuts of gum trees, makes us realize the figure of imperialism and colonialism. In Japan, we have a proverb, «One made a Buddhist image, but he forgot the spirit ol Buddha». This means that a finely carved sculpture of Buddha can hardly appeal to the people if the carver himself has forgotten the most important We must learn from the spirit of your struggle Tadahiro Ogawa, a Japanese photographer and anti-apartheid activist, visited liberated areas of Cabo Delgado Province from April 22 to May 5. He wrote for "Mozambique Revolution": thing, in this case the spirit of Buddha, which is the very motive and element of the whole work. Here in Mozambique, the «Buddhist image» is seemingly rather small. But great and strong is your spirit. Your schools are built under the trees and have hardly any big classrooms. Desks and chairs are made by the bran ches of trees. But your schools have much greater spirit and more essential spirit than ours. Your hospitals also teach us the way hospitals should be based on humanism. It is easy for you to understand this, if you have a look at the problems of pollution in the so-called advanced countries. For instance, we Japanese established big industries and our economy seems to be considerably powerful, but we have lost some very important things such as clean air, healthy environment to live in, and so forth. So I think there are many things which careful observers must learn from the «spirit» of your nation-building. (And, if I may add, socialists in this regard make no exception; they will also learn a lot). We must study the great spirit of your struggle which shows us the essence of matters. Lastly may I again extend my thanks to the Party and all the people of Mozambique. I think it is my duty to go back and tell the Japanese people exactly what I saw in this part of the world, especially how everyone was committed to the construction of a new order by revolu- tionally changing their own ways of life.
Object Description
Title | Mozambique revolution, no. 55 (1973 Apr,-June) |
Description | Contents: Editorial - International solidarity (p. 1); Italian conference of solidarity (p. 3); Caetano get out! (p. 4); The O.U.A. 10th anniversary (p. 5); The president's visit to Soviet Union and Romania (p. 7); We must learn from the spirit of your struggle (p. 8); A trip to the Zambezi (p. 9); FRELIMO is in full control (p.11); War communique (p.12); Tackling the problems in our schools (p.15); The struggle to build a healthy Mozambique (p.17); The Josina Marchel orphanage (p. 20); Wiriyamu: Not an isolated crime (p. 23). This is an issue reprinted and distributed by the LSM Information Center in Richmond, Canada. |
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 | -18.6696821,35.5273477 |
Coverage date | 1373/1973-03 |
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 | 1973-04/1973-06 |
Type |
texts images |
Format | 26 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-357 |
Description
Title | CENPA-357~10 |
Filename | CENPA-357~10.tiff |
Full text | VISITORS IN FREE MOZAMBIQUE First of all I must thank FRELIMO people to have permitted, made arrangements and thus helped my travelling in your country of Mozambique, as a photographer and as a member of the Japan Anti-Apartheid Committee. Inside your country, I saw many fighting, working, and studying people in many shambas or in bases, schools and in hospitals. Your activities are almost the same as those in your comrades' country, Guine Bissau, where I similarly visited in 1971. I must say I am deeply impressed with the progress of your struggle, and I did see with my own eyes how Portuguese have been exploiting your villages. And the cruel forced labour, which resemble gum-juice squeezed out from cuts of gum trees, makes us realize the figure of imperialism and colonialism. In Japan, we have a proverb, «One made a Buddhist image, but he forgot the spirit ol Buddha». This means that a finely carved sculpture of Buddha can hardly appeal to the people if the carver himself has forgotten the most important We must learn from the spirit of your struggle Tadahiro Ogawa, a Japanese photographer and anti-apartheid activist, visited liberated areas of Cabo Delgado Province from April 22 to May 5. He wrote for "Mozambique Revolution": thing, in this case the spirit of Buddha, which is the very motive and element of the whole work. Here in Mozambique, the «Buddhist image» is seemingly rather small. But great and strong is your spirit. Your schools are built under the trees and have hardly any big classrooms. Desks and chairs are made by the bran ches of trees. But your schools have much greater spirit and more essential spirit than ours. Your hospitals also teach us the way hospitals should be based on humanism. It is easy for you to understand this, if you have a look at the problems of pollution in the so-called advanced countries. For instance, we Japanese established big industries and our economy seems to be considerably powerful, but we have lost some very important things such as clean air, healthy environment to live in, and so forth. So I think there are many things which careful observers must learn from the «spirit» of your nation-building. (And, if I may add, socialists in this regard make no exception; they will also learn a lot). We must study the great spirit of your struggle which shows us the essence of matters. Lastly may I again extend my thanks to the Party and all the people of Mozambique. I think it is my duty to go back and tell the Japanese people exactly what I saw in this part of the world, especially how everyone was committed to the construction of a new order by revolu- tionally changing their own ways of life. |
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