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The assassination of Eduardo Mondlane: FRELIMO, Tanzania, and the politics of exile in Dar es Salaam

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Article

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Authors

Roberts, George 

Abstract

This article uses the city of Dar es Salaam as an urban lens for understanding the politics of FRELIMO in exile and the assassination of its first president, Eduardo Mondlane, in 1969. By adopting a multiarchival technique, these narratives can be broken down to a micropolitical level, shedding light on the distribution of agency in the confluence of superpower rivalry and decolonisation in the Third World. The splits within the liberation movement can be explained via the intersection of internal disagreements, Cold War dynamics, and relations with the Tanzanian state, within the context of Dar es Salaam’s cosmopolitan public sphere.

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47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies, 44 Human Society

Journal Title

Cold War History

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Journal ISSN

1468-2745
1743-7962

Volume Title

17

Publisher

Informa UK Limited