What a beautiful history captured in real time. Africa for Africans by birth black or white, pink or orange. Our forefathers fought a good fight. It looked impossible until it was done, Thank you Samora.
My Grandfather died in the post liberation civil war! I was less than 5 years then....Hearing this evokes memories of the undying spirit for the God ordained freedom and liberation of the human soul! I would die for my Nation ....same as he did...our blood is seed that cries out for its eternal freedom and retribution for all the injustices of the world by which Billions have had to die since human civilizations....and we know its not all in vain....
My God my friend, did you notice Graça Machel, Marcelino Dos Santos and Chissano. This was in the old Lorenzo Marqués, actual Maputo. Times flies so fast. Merci beaucoup mon ami. Obrigado as they said in Portuguese.
Mon ami, you are very sharp! I missed Graca -she appears to have always had the short hair-look. Chissano I still can't find. He has such distinctive features. I have some footage of him in reserve from 1976 where he is sitting next to Brigadier Garba in Mauritius and instantly recognised him. Thanks.
Adeyinka Makinde my God, mon ami. l am the one who have to thank you immensely for these invaluable throwback. Merci beaucoup. These are invaluable treasures for young generations of Africans. Both lusophones, anglophones and francophones. Merci pour ce travail vraiment remarquable.
Soldados portugueses ainda por cima. SAMORA sempre teve a consciência de que a luta não era contra o povo português ou contra os brancos em geral, mas contra o regime colonial facista de Salazar e Caetano. Ao libertar Moçambique do colonialismo, Samora ajudou também a libertar os portugueses de sua ditadura dacista caquética
Great movie! The mozambican struggle was a strong source of inspiration for the black movement in the US during the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately theses memories has been buried and the sacrifice of the mozambican people to fight racism and exploitation in southern africa has been forgotten
When Frelimo expelled European Portuguese they destroyed a once beautiful and prosperous country. For example, my grandfather and grandmother fled to South Africa during this time and their manufacturing business which employed over 400 locals went belly up overnight. Frelimo only took power because a year prior European Portuguese (on the 25th of April 1974) and a peaceful coup which disbanded the Estadio Novo regime and established a new democratic government which was against the wars in Africa. Portugal stopped fighting, Frelimo didn't win. The ceasefire and peace proposed by Portugual was accepted by Frelimo at face value, however, once Portugal peacefully handed over the country they turned violent immediately after and drove away good, society contributing people. Today Mozambique has regressed and is a shell of its former self. A place ridden with corruption, tribalism an in-fighting. Just a reminder Portuguese we're not blameless, however, they were not cold-hearted and oppressive colonizers either. To a great extent social cohesion through interacial marriage, friendships and business ties was encouraged and widley practised. There was no institutionalized racial segregation nor racially motivated incidences of crime. It was not Utopia but it was far from being a "broken and unfair" country.
Que tal leres um pouco mais? Então os portugueses colonialistas não eram frios? Frio eram os espanhóis? Então não havia insititucionalização do racismo? Então o que era aquilo de assimilados? Porque se ser? Que possibilidades trazia essa condição? Os brancos reinóis o que eram? E os de 2ª? Então o que era isso de haver postos que só brancos do império podiam ocupar e os nascidos em Moçambique o não podiam? Então isto ainda não é institucionalização do racismo? Então o que queriam os brancos naturais de Moçambique ao fundaram a Associação dos Naturais de Moçambique? O que queriam os brancos naturais de Moçambique quando pegaram em armas e lutaram contra o colonialismo português? E porque foram os teus avós à África do Sul? o Apartheid lhes inspirava alguma coisa?👻
Nice text, sprinkled all over with the superiority complex of the “european portuguese” (over the “African Mozambican”). “Frelimo didn’t win”, “portugal stopped fighting”, “a peaceful coup”! You make it sound like the european portuguese had the right to rule Mozambique,and it was ok for the european portuguese to be under a fascist (oppression) government and the cue was a natural occurrence, but the uprising of some other oppressed people over an invasor was madness! C’mmon, you clearly show that if you had the opportunity you would beat me up, work me to death (maybe like those 400 locals?) and sell me, you colonialist
You have Mozambique, Angola, and Guiné-Bissau fallen Combatants to thank for your “peaceful cue” and disbandment of the “estado novo” and the institution of democracy. In liberating our countries, we liberated you!
This is a warped and curated version of the reality of Portuguese colonialism. The barbarism of the Portuguese government in all its former colonies is well documented. If they were what you allege they were, what precipitated the need for an armed struggle in the first place? What of the atrocities of the PIDE? Most of your diatribe is as insufferable as it is utterly without merit. The denialism in your tone and assertions is jarring 😢
I've read some of the history of the Portuguese in Africa. What's written here is not totally wrong like some comment. The Portuguese developed industries in Mozambique, while FRELIMO ran them into the ground. There were white Mozambicans who wanted independence too, who never set foot in Portugal, hated Salazar, they were let by their own government post 1974. If you don't believe all this, look at how FRELIMO changed the idealogy. They went from Marxist-Leninist to IMF Dependency to Savage Capitalism when the money ran out. The Africans here (of which I am also one) need to let go of their emotions and look at this objectively. There were no winners.
What a beautiful history captured in real time. Africa for Africans by birth black or white, pink or orange. Our forefathers fought a good fight. It looked impossible until it was done, Thank you Samora.
My Grandfather died in the post liberation civil war! I was less than 5 years then....Hearing this evokes memories of the undying spirit for the God ordained freedom and liberation of the human soul! I would die for my Nation ....same as he did...our blood is seed that cries out for its eternal freedom and retribution for all the injustices of the world by which Billions have had to die since human civilizations....and we know its not all in vain....
My God my friend, did you notice Graça Machel, Marcelino Dos Santos and Chissano. This was in the old Lorenzo Marqués, actual Maputo. Times flies so fast. Merci beaucoup mon ami. Obrigado as they said in Portuguese.
Mon ami, you are very sharp! I missed Graca -she appears to have always had the short hair-look. Chissano I still can't find. He has such distinctive features. I have some footage of him in reserve from 1976 where he is sitting next to Brigadier Garba in Mauritius and instantly recognised him. Thanks.
Adeyinka Makinde my God, mon ami. l am the one who have to thank you immensely for these invaluable throwback. Merci beaucoup. These are invaluable treasures for young generations of Africans. Both lusophones, anglophones and francophones. Merci pour ce travail vraiment remarquable.
One of the greatest African freedom fighters, Samora Macel, rip. We sing this song in the swahili version in Uganda.
só Samora Machel, que podia fazer aquilo, cumprimentado os soldados um por um.
Soldados portugueses ainda por cima. SAMORA sempre teve a consciência de que a luta não era contra o povo português ou contra os brancos em geral, mas contra o regime colonial facista de Salazar e Caetano. Ao libertar Moçambique do colonialismo, Samora ajudou também a libertar os portugueses de sua ditadura dacista caquética
Judas and the black messiah sent me here.
Nice!
Great movie! The mozambican struggle was a strong source of inspiration for the black movement in the US during the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately theses memories has been buried and the sacrifice of the mozambican people to fight racism and exploitation in southern africa has been forgotten
When Frelimo expelled European Portuguese they destroyed a once beautiful and prosperous country. For example, my grandfather and grandmother fled to South Africa during this time and their manufacturing business which employed over 400 locals went belly up overnight. Frelimo only took power because a year prior European Portuguese (on the 25th of April 1974) and a peaceful coup which disbanded the Estadio Novo regime and established a new democratic government which was against the wars in Africa. Portugal stopped fighting, Frelimo didn't win. The ceasefire and peace proposed by Portugual was accepted by Frelimo at face value, however, once Portugal peacefully handed over the country they turned violent immediately after and drove away good, society contributing people. Today Mozambique has regressed and is a shell of its former self. A place ridden with corruption, tribalism an in-fighting. Just a reminder Portuguese we're not blameless, however, they were not cold-hearted and oppressive colonizers either. To a great extent social cohesion through interacial marriage, friendships and business ties was encouraged and widley practised. There was no institutionalized racial segregation nor racially motivated incidences of crime. It was not Utopia but it was far from being a "broken and unfair" country.
Que tal leres um pouco mais? Então os portugueses colonialistas não eram frios? Frio eram os espanhóis? Então não havia insititucionalização do racismo? Então o que era aquilo de assimilados? Porque se ser? Que possibilidades trazia essa condição? Os brancos reinóis o que eram? E os de 2ª? Então o que era isso de haver postos que só brancos do império podiam ocupar e os nascidos em Moçambique o não podiam? Então isto ainda não é institucionalização do racismo? Então o que queriam os brancos naturais de Moçambique ao fundaram a Associação dos Naturais de Moçambique? O que queriam os brancos naturais de Moçambique quando pegaram em armas e lutaram contra o colonialismo português? E porque foram os teus avós à África do Sul? o Apartheid lhes inspirava alguma coisa?👻
Nice text, sprinkled all over with the superiority complex of the “european portuguese” (over the “African Mozambican”).
“Frelimo didn’t win”, “portugal stopped fighting”, “a peaceful coup”! You make it sound like the european portuguese had the right to rule Mozambique,and it was ok for the european portuguese to be under a fascist (oppression) government and the cue was a natural occurrence, but the uprising of some other oppressed people over an invasor was madness! C’mmon, you clearly show that if you had the opportunity you would beat me up, work me to death (maybe like those 400 locals?) and sell me, you colonialist
You have Mozambique, Angola, and Guiné-Bissau fallen Combatants to thank for your “peaceful cue” and disbandment of the “estado novo” and the institution of democracy. In liberating our countries, we liberated you!
This is a warped and curated version of the reality of Portuguese colonialism. The barbarism of the Portuguese government in all its former colonies is well documented. If they were what you allege they were, what precipitated the need for an armed struggle in the first place? What of the atrocities of the PIDE? Most of your diatribe is as insufferable as it is utterly without merit. The denialism in your tone and assertions is jarring 😢
I've read some of the history of the Portuguese in Africa. What's written here is not totally wrong like some comment. The Portuguese developed industries in Mozambique, while FRELIMO ran them into the ground. There were white Mozambicans who wanted independence too, who never set foot in Portugal, hated Salazar, they were let by their own government post 1974. If you don't believe all this, look at how FRELIMO changed the idealogy. They went from Marxist-Leninist to IMF Dependency to Savage Capitalism when the money ran out.
The Africans here (of which I am also one) need to let go of their emotions and look at this objectively. There were no winners.