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Revolution, Counter-Revolution and
Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa
When Mozambique’s sixteen-year-long armed conflict ended in 1992, it was con-
sidered one of the most vicious wars in independent Africa. The war took one
million lives, devastated the country’s economy, brutalized the population and left
most people destitute. On one side stood the government, dominated by Frelimo,
the ruling party which had won Mozambique its independence from Portugal in
1975. On the other was Renamo, a proxy army created and used by the dying white
supremacist regimes of the region to destabilize Mozambique. The war produced no
clear victor and an internationally-brokered peace deal guaranteed Renamo, widely
recognized as the main perpetrator of wartime atrocities, a place in Mozambique’s
post-war political system.
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa
examines the
government’s attempts to revise postcolonial Mozambique’s traumatic past with a
view to negotiating the present. Alice Dinerman stresses the path-dependence of
memory practices while tracing their divergent trajectories, shifting meanings and
varied combinations within ruling discourse and performance. This ground break-
ing study investigates defining themes in the field of social memory studies as they
bear on the politics of post-Cold War, post-apartheid Southern Africa. These themes
include the interplay between past and present, the dialectic between remembering
and forgetting, the dynamics between popular and official memory discourses, and
the politics of acknowledgment. Dinerman’s original analysis will be of interest to
students of modern Africa; the sociology of memory; Third World politics; and
post-conflict societies.
Alice Dinerman
received her MA in Political Science from York University in
Toronto in 1989, and her PhD in Politics from the University of Oxford in 1999.
She has taught high-school-level English and Mathematics to ex-combatants and
war victims of the apartheid-era regional conflict in Zimbabwe; served as an external
consultant to the Africa Office of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in
the USA; and held academic posts at the Evergreen State College and the Henry M.
Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. This book
is based on her doctoral research when she was a research associate of the Center for
African Studies at the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo.
Routledge studies in modern history
1 Isolation
Places and practices of exclusion
Edited by Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford
2 From Slave Trade to Empire
European colonisation of Black Africa 1780s–1880s
Edited by Olivier Pétré Grenouilleau
3 Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial
Africa
The case of Mozambique, 1975–1994
Alice Dinerman
Revolution, Counter-Revolution
and Revisionism in Postcolonial
Africa
The case of Mozambique, 1975–1994
Alice Dinerman
First published 2006
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