Eduardo Mondlane: Hope Destroyed - Paperback

by Jr. Lloyd H. Ellis (Translator), Jose Manuel Duarte de Jesus (Author)

Eduardo Mondlane was an extremely promising, able, well-educated, charismatic scion of an impoverished aristocratic Tsonga family in southern Mo ambique. He was strongly backed by the Kennedys, "the best and the brightest" of their State Department, their CIA, and the Ford Foundation. He enjoyed significant support in Portugal and was universally supported by the Western Democracies and by influential Africans like Nyerere and Bourguiba. How could Mondlane lose control, and the West lose its influence, in the nationalist movement he had so capably founded? The letter bomb Mondlane opened on Feb. 3, 1969 ended his campaign for a moderate, democratic, prosperous, socially responsible, unaligned Mozambique and swept his unfortunate country, as he had feared, into the destitution of a proxy Cold War. How could this happen? Jos Duarte explains the national and international factions surrounding Mondlane that led to his destruction and the destruction of his country.

Author Biography

Ambassador Dr. José Manuel Duarte de Jesus was President of the Commission for Declassification of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He continues his research and teaching at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Politícas of the University of Lisbon and at the Universidade Nova of Lisbon. Amb. Duarte represented Portugal in Kinshasa, Brazzaville, Bangui, Bujumbura, Kigali, Beijing, Ulan Bator, Pyongyang, and Ottawa. Lloyd Harris Ellis, Jr. is President of Ellis Farms in Hastings, Nebraska. He was American Vice Consul in Lourenço Marques, 1962-1964, and Analyst for the Portuguese African Territories in the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 1964-1966. Dr. Ellis entered medical school with the intention of practicing in the mission hospital at Messumba.