Introduction: Seeking the origins of "unity" and "division"; Emergence of "Mozambique" and social changes under colonial rule; Characteristics of the Maua District and the establishment of colonial rule; History before the liberation struggle in Mozambique; World and Mozambican liberation struggle from 1960 to 1975; Maua District during the liberation struggle.
Sayaka Funada-Classen is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) where she teaches African Affairs, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Portuguese. She was a representative of a Japanese NGO, Mozambique Support Network, established in 2000 after the Mozambique Great Flood, and vice chairperson of the International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Civil Society Forum, a Japanese advocacy NGO, from 2004 to 2009. She is currently the chairperson of the Project in Response to Needs of Infants, Children, and Pregnant Women of Fukushima established by the citizens after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Nuclear Crisis in March 2011.
"The Origins of War in Mozambique vividly describes the past one hundred-year history of Mozambique, through the painstaking examination of archives and meticulous field research. It has opened up a new direction in the study of African history, freely adopting methods of different disciplines such as international relations, African history, social anthropology and area studies." (From a review of the Japanese edition of The Origins of War in Mozambique in African Study 78)
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