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“The source of national unity is the common suffering during the last 50 years spent under Portuguese rule. … In Mozambique, it was colonial domination which produced the territorial community and created the basis for a psychological coherence.”

Source: The Struggle for Mozambique (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969), chapter 5

Context Written in exile as FRELIMO president to explain the roots of Mozambican nationalism; the book appeared in 1969, shortly after his assassination by parcel bomb in Dar es Salaam.

Eduardo MondlaneMozambique · 1920–1969

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