Abstract

MACHAVA, Benedito. The Cock Crowed in Lourenço Marques: The 7th September and the Other Side of Decolonization in Mozambique. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [online]. 2015, n.106, pp.53-84. ISSN 2182-7435.  https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.5876.

This article describes and analyses the emergence of an African resistance group during the settler uprising of 7th September 1974 in Lourenço Marques. It examines the trajectory of the African urban elites that led the resistance (the so-called Galo, or ‘cock’, group) and the development of a markedly moderate political imagination, due to the specific circumstances of the urban area in which they had always operated. They played a determining role in protecting African populations against the terrorism of the insurgents and in the recovery of the Mozambique Radio Club, thereby preventing the escalation of violence in Lourenço Marques.

Keywords : Africans elites; decolonization; political imaginary; insurrection; Mozambique; political violence.

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