For some years now, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has been gaining increasing importance in the USA. Connected with this is an ever-growing awareness of the issues arising around the movement of equal opportunities for all...
In March 2020 a book was published by Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, to which I contributed a chapter. The editors Birgit Neumann-Becker and Hans-Joachim Döring gave it the title “For Respect and Recognition. The Mozambican...
From 22 to 24 February 2019 the “International Conference on Development Cooperation Mozambique-Germany with a Focus on Contract Work and Experts on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the State Treaty of the...
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...
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...
On October 19, 1986, the plane collided with Mozambican President Samora Moisés Machel, who was on his way back from Lusaka (Zambia) to Maputo, at a speed of 411 kilometers per hour on a...
The GDR’s relations with Mozambique go back to the time of the beginning liberation struggle of the Mozambican people against the almost 5oo-year-old Portuguese colonial rule in the sixties of the last century. Both...
