The Pedagogy of Revolution

Youth, Generational Conflict, and Education in the Development of Mozambican Nationalism and the State, 1962-1970

Bibliographic Data

ID4604574
AuthorsMichael G Panzer, Michael Panzer (University at Albany, State University of New York, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume35
Issue4
Pages803-820
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057070903313178
OpenAlexW2120582824
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This article addresses a lacuna in analyses of FRELIMO's nationalist development during the 1960s. Specifically, the article examines the impact of generational tensions between Mozambican youth and FRELIMO party ‘elders’ that emerged during the anti-colonial war at the FRELIMO secondary school in Dar es Salaam. The main argument is that under the auspices of the Mozambique Institute, which operated almost exclusively in Tanzania, the FRELIMO secondary school was a site of significant intergenerational tensions that affected the liberation movement during a particularly critical moment of its anti-colonial war against Portugal. This analysis is particularly relevant for the issue of generational tensions and may help to encourage historians of contemporary Africa to (re)consider how African nationalist groups, operating within another nation's sovereign space, could build legitimacy and establish hegemony. This article, then, also indirectly argues that FRELIMO was able to utilise sovereign space within Tanzania and was, therefore, able to construct institutional bodies (schools, hospitals, military camps) that garnered hegemonic legitimacy in such a way as to allow the nationalist movement to act as a proto-state

Argument (complex analysis · Colonialism · Hegemony · Legitimacy · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Law

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