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Mozambique colonization
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Mozambique colonization
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- After 10 years of warfare and Portugal's return to democracy, FRELIMO ook over the total control of the capital through a coup in April, 1974.
- Within a year, most of the Portuguese colonists had left, some had been chucked out by the new government while some other fled in fear.
- Finally on 25th June 1975 Mozambique got its independence.
Bibliography
Did it have impact?
- http://www.mapsofworld.com/mozambique/geography-and-history/independence.html
- http://laplaneterevisitee.org/en/68/a_colonized_country
- http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/History_of_Mozambique.html
- http://www.newafricanmagazine.com/special-reports/other-reports/black-history-month/mozambique-a-history-of-struggle
Was my country colonized?
- The first inhabitants of Mozambique were the san hunters and gatherers.
- Between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, waves of Bantu-speaking peoples migrated from the north through the Zambezi River valley and then gradually into the plateau and coastal areas.
- The Bantu were farmers and iron workers.
- Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498.
- Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.
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- From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the east
- "Mozambique" first described a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay, then the fort and town on that island, São Sebastião de Moçambique, and later extended to the whole of the Portuguese colonies on the east coast of Africa.
- With the decline of Portuguese power, especially during the period when the crown of Portugal was combined with the crown of Spain (1580–1640), the Portuguese coastal settlements were ignored and fell into a ruinous condition.
- European leaseholders, who were also tax-collector for each district and claimed the tax either in labour or produce, a system that kept the sharecropping farmers in a state of serfdom.
Why was it colonized?
- Mozambique was coveted by its neighbours for its riches, but above all because it was the natural outlet into the Indian Ocean for the countries of the interior.
- The British had created the African Lakes Company in Nyassa in the west of Mozambique and wanted access to the sea via the valley of the Mozambique part of the Shire River to export sugar and coffee.
- Portugal obtained the submission of several local chiefs and founded a mission.
- The colony’s dependence on British activities grew.
- Portugal had to accept freedom of traffic on the rivers, which established the country’s role as an entry point
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