Decolonization of Africa · TURNING POINT ·
Independence of Mozambique (1975)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Maputo — Mozambique is free”
25 Jun 1975 — Samora Machel’s FRELIMO inherits a country with a few hundred African graduates and a settler exodus under way. Within two years, a South African–backed insurgency begins.
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- Turning point
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- Portuguese Colonial War (chapter 8 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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