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Mozambike Island – Handcrafts

From Mozambike Handicraft (Dhow)

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Bibliographic Guide for the History of Mozambique.

The Bibliographic Guide for the Student of History of Mozambique, from the collection “Nosso chão”  (Our Floor -#6) of the University Eduardo Mondlane, number 6 of the collection as of 1996, is the author of Amélia Souto, it is useful for the period from 200 until the beginning process of independence in the mid-twentieth century.

We find this copy in the UEM Bookstore, for the price of 200 Meticais. About 2.50 €. It is a relic for anyone interested in the history of the country.

It is a multi-purpose publication, with 347 pages, organized by classic thematic chapters of this type of works. It begins with reference works. It then follows the bibliography on Bantu expansion. In the third point it addresses the African societies known in the present territory. The Empire of the Monomotapa, The Marve kingdoms, The kingdoms south of Save and the Kingdom of Gaza. Further north, the kingdoms Yao, Maconde and Macuas of the Interior. The kingdoms of the Zambezi Valley and the Coastal Kingdoms of Swahili influence and Islamized.

Point 4 gives prominence to Economic history, with the themes of the trade of the coast, gold and ivory, the slave trade. Already more in contemporary time, the oilseed trade, and the plantation companies. Also in point 4, a small social history of work, with migratory work for the Rhodesia and South Africa mines, and the emergence of unions in ports and railways.

In point 5 it addresses the administrative organization of colonialism, and in point 6 the processes of territorial occupation of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. In section 7, he presents the bibliographies of labour history and social relations in Mozambique, including colonial policies for indigenous peoples.

Finally, in section 8, he addresses cultural issues, presenting bibliography for African religions, Catholic churches and their missions. The Protestant churches and the presence of Islam. It ends with a reflection on the History of Education in Mozambique, on its relationship between settlers and Africans.

On the cover is a figure illustrating the “Cafres of Moçambique” inserted in the publication of Jan Van Lisnchotem in Navigatio ac Intenerarium, 1596. A classic image,

The publication should have supported the graduation program in History of Mozambique and reflects the organization of the historiographical thought of the time. Absent is the presence of Hindu and Indian communities.

Capa do Guia Bibliográfio com ilustração dos Cafres de Moçambique

Outher Refences: Response of questions about Cafres or ethnographic news about Sofala from the end of the 18th century. (1966). Introd and notes Gerhard Liesegang; pref. Jorge Dias Overseas Investigations Board, Overseas Investigations Board nº 2

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Maconde Wood Sculpture in Mozambique

Makonde Art and Political History of Mozambique (1950-1974) by Lia Laranjeira
Published by publisher Intermeios, in Maputo in 2018 I discovered in the old Minerva Bookstore in Maputo, is a publication of the doctoral thesis in the postgraduate program of Social History of the University of São Paulo.

It is an interesting book in that it makes an extensive and critical reading of the Maconde sculpture phenomenon in Mozambique. It approaches researches made in colonial times from the works of the Nampula Museum and the Campaigns of the Anthropologist Jorge Dias in the sixties.

It also addresses the social issue of sculpture producers, in their relationship with the social history of the group of macondes, in their transits of confrontation and resistance to the colonial state. It also addresses the Macao activism in the context of the war of liberation from Tanzania.

In the end, he approaches the symbolic question of the use of the Maconde sculpture as an identity element of free Mozambique.

See Tambem Leite, Pedro Pereira (2015 ) A Escultura Maconde e a Ideia de Moçambicanidade