Portugal & Descolonização - ‘MOZAMBIQUE AND THE FUTURE’, by Kerry Swift - Cape Town 1975 - Muito Raro;

 

Portugal & Descolonização - Uma excepcional reportagem em Moçambique, iniciada antes da queda de Marcello Caetano em Lisboa a 25 de Abril de 1974 e uma panorâmica junto do dispositivo das Forças Armadas Portuguesas nesta então província ultramarina, com o autor a percorrer o território e a contactar os mais altos responsáveis militares 

‘MOZAMBIQUE AND THE FUTURE’ 

By Kerry Swift 

Edition by Robert Hale & Company 

Cape Town 1975 

Livro de capas duras, sobrecapa, com 192 páginas, ilustrado e em muito bom estado de conservação. Excelente. 

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Da Badana: 

“The military coup that ousted Dr. Marcello Caetano’s dictatorial Governement in Lisbon on April 25, 1974, threatened to change the face of Southern Africa dramatically.

Events unfold quickly in Africa which makes in the most exciting continent. History doesn’t have to wait for the record - you can see it happening daily. And the tide of Black Nationalism that has rocked this continent waits for nobody.

This book describes the events which will change people’s lives and, more important, their attitudes.

The author, Kerry Swift, was the last journalist to conduct a comprehensive tour of Mozambique before the coup in Portugal and that he found there will never he the same again.

In the first part of the book, Swift writer about Portugal’s war in Mozambique, but it deals too with the people: their thoughts, feelings and traditions. The second part concentrates on the effect on Mozambique of the dramatic events of the coup and its aftermath. Whatever the effect eventually, it Will have farreaching ramifications for South Africa and Rhodesia.“ 

O Autor: 

“KERRY SWIFT

Twenty four year old Kerry Swift is a brilliant young feature writer on the ‘SUNDAY TIMES’ and a product of an American Field Scholarship in Wisconsin, U.S.A.

During his course there he was awarded a further scholarship to study creative writing, but returned to South Africa, instead and went to Rhodes University where he studied Journalism and African politics.

He comes from family of journalists, his father being a sub editor on the ‘SUNDAY TIMES’ and his brother a sports writer on the ‘Johannesburg Star’. 

Swift has that priceless gift of being able to write with a human touch which gives this, his first book, a wide appeal.“ 

Do ÍNDICE: / CONTENTS: 

PART ONE 

1. - Into Mozambique: Lourenço Marques 

2. - We head north: Nampula 

3. - The Admiral of the Navy: Palma 

4. - Convoy in the north: Pundanhar 

5. - Mozambique’s ‘Da Nang’: Mueda 

6. - General Basto Machado: Nampula 

7. - Cabora Bassa: Tete and Songo 

8. - A Chronicle of misery: the hospitals 

9. - Cavalary in the bush: Vila Pery 

10. - The Air Force General: Beira 

PARTE TWO 

11. - Frelimo and the Liberation Movements 

12. - The Anatomy of a Revolution 

13. - The Aftermath in Portugal 

14. - Tha Afertmath in Mozambique 

15. - Mozambique and the White South 

Epilogue 

Postscript 

Appendix 

 

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