The fire was on, and the period 1961-1974 became known as the Portuguese Colonial War. It was in Dar-es Salaam, thanks to Julius Nyerere, that Frelimo established anchor and support, and merged with other Mozambique nationalist movements.Īll was not well in the other Portuguese colonies of Angola and Guinea-Bissau. Political movements sprung up, and in Mozambique, Frelimo-The Front for the Liberation of Mozambique-founded in 1962 initiated freedom campaigns. The socialist and Marxist ideologies that spread across Africa in the 1950’s and 60’s promised freedom from colonial rule. Like all regions under colonial rule, Mozambique locals agitated and fought for Independence. Folks have stayed true to Catholicism, Islam, Animism, Bahai, independent and social beliefs, practices, etc. As for religion, anything and everything goes. We shall get to that very soon.īeing coastal and bordered by the Indian Ocean, Mozambique’s current population is made up of Indians, Arabs, Bantu and Swahili speakers, Portuguese descendants and all kinds of mixed mixes. There were at least four versions of Portugal’s Coat of Arms imposed on Mozambique before the island fought and achieved its independence. So the first Coat of Arms was Portuguese, the second Portuguese, and the third revised Portuguese East Africa. Portuguese speaking since 1400’s, since Vasco da Gama alighted there in 1498, and by 1505, Mozambique had fallen in the hands of Portuguese rule. We’re in Mozambique, ladies and gentlemen.
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