'Landlords? What do we want landlords in our country for?' President Samora Machel was born into a family of relatively wealthy farmers in Gaza Province, Mozambique. He came from a strong revolutionary tradition, with his grandfather fighting alongside the Lion of Gaza, Gungunhana, who waged rebellion against the Portuguese imperialists. In the 1950s, his family’s land, […]

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