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Creating a National Culture: An Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Barbara Barnes
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The challenges ahead for Mozambique as it engages in cultural transformation as well as in other areas of fundamental change are enormous. But the record of conquests and victories over the last 15 years has been equally enormous and remarkable. The Mozambicans are determined and confident in their ability to build a new and revolutionary people’s culture, based on the worker-peasant alliance, transforming antiquated and exploitative culture into one which allows for a rich blossoming of the human personality and potential. In this confidence and determination, there may be lessons for us all.

Type
Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Spring 1978 , pp. 35 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1978 

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Notes

1. Graca Simbine, “A Verdadeira Cultura e a Revolucao,” Tempo, no. 303, July 25, 1976, pp. 49-53.

2. Ibid.

3. Machel, Samora, “Education in the Revolution,” in The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Mache!, New York: Afro-American Information Service, 1975.Google Scholar

4. Simbine, op. cit.

5. Ibid.

6. Bulletins no. 9 and 10 (Congress Special Issue), Mozambique Information Agency, Avenida Ho Chi Min 103, Maputo, People’s Republic of Mozambique, p. 19.

7. “A luta dos Trabalhadores e uma Revolucao Cultural,” in Noticias, edicao especial, June 25, 1977, pp. 25-26.

8. Ibid.

9. Joaquim Chissano, “Na Cultura Reside a nossa Personalidade,” in Noticias, December 8, 1977.

10. Samora Machel, Noticias, December 6, 1977.