Many politicians use in their speeches the already standardised phrase of “currently the greatest challenge for the EU”. This refers to the flows of African refugees crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa and entering...
With the transition to national independence in 1975, the victorious FRELIMO (founded 25.06.1962) not only fought for the liberation of the Mozambican people from colonial exploitation, tribalism, racism and lawlessness. It immediately began to...
The following article is the long version of an article written for the magazine “Melodie & Rhythmus“. Recently I was asked to contribute to the cultural connections of the GDR with African countries due...
While looking through my archive of newspaper articles from Mozambique, I received the following call for monthly rations from the newspaper Notícias of 25 April 1986.
On the occasion of the work on a lecture on the Cape Verde Islands and their history, the process of the liberation of the country from colonial dependence by the freedom fighter Amílcar Cabral...
Almost every Mozambican city today has a monument to Mozambique’s first president and founder, Samora Moisés Machel. This proves that the president, who was murdered in 1986, is deeply rooted in the consciousness of...
Comment to the understanding of the following article Inspired by a recent expert discussion with a scientist from the University of Giessen on an aspect of the topic “Education and upbringing in the People’s...
Types of social policies and their history About 1700 years ago, the eastern Bantu migrating from the north joined the indigenous people living from hunting and fishing (San and Khoi-Khoi) and settled gradually in...
The history of social policies in Angola Over the centuries, the history of the Angolans has been marked by oppression, dependence, slavery, colonial exploitation, war and civil war. This martyrdom did not end until...
1. Religions in Angola The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Angola in 2009 was perceived as the event of the year. President José Eduardo dos Santos, for many years representative of an atheistic...