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List Of Mozambicans
{{unreferenced, date=February 2016 This is a list of notable people from Mozambique. Filmmakers *Rogério Manjate, actor, writer and film director Musicians * Eldevina Materula, oboist and music teacher Politicians *Esperança Bias, former Minister of Mineral Resources *Joaquim Chissano, first Prime Minister of Mozambique * Josina Machel, political activist and first wife of Samora Machel * Graca Machel, political activist and second wife of Samora Machel *Samora Machel, first President of Mozambique * Alberto Massavanhane, first Mayor of Maputo and Mozambican Diplomat *Eduardo Mondlane, founder and first president of FRELIMO * Janet Mondlane, anti-apartheid activist and wife to Eduardo Mondlane * Francisco Songane, Minister of Health Sportspeople * Maria Mutola, world and Olympic track and field athlete winner Writers *Mia Couto António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mozambique
Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east. The capital and largest city is Maputo. Notably Northern Mozambique lies within the monsoon trade winds of the Indian Ocean and is frequentely affected by disruptive weather. Between the 7th and 11th centuries, a series of Swahili port towns developed on that area, which contributed to the development of a distinct Swahili culture and language. In the late medieval period, these towns were frequented by traders from Somalia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and India. The voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498 marked the arrival of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Mondlane
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (20 June 1920 – 3 February 1969) was the President of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) from 1962, the year that FRELIMO was founded in Tanzania, until his assassination in 1969. Born in Mozambique, he was an anthropologist by profession, and worked as a history and sociology professor at Syracuse University before returning to Mozambique in 1963. Early life The fourth of 16 sons of a chief of the Bantu-speaking Tsonga, Mondlane was born in "N'wajahani", district of Mandlakazi in the province of Gaza," in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) in 1920. He worked as a shepherd until the age of 12. He attended several different primary schools before enrolling in a Swiss–Presbyterian school near Manjacaze. However, he ended his secondary education in the same organisation's church school at Lemana College at Village above Elim Hospital in the Transvaal (Limpopo Province), South Africa. He then spent one year at the Jan H. Hofmeyr Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tânia Tomé
Tânia Tomé (born 1981) is a Mozambican public speaker, entrepreneur,Tv Personality and author. She is also singer, songwritter and performer and releases music under the name Queentanisha. Early life and education Born in Mozambique, Tomé completed a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Portugal, with an academic merit award received from former Portuguese President Mario Soares. She obtained a postgraduate degree in business administration from the Catholic University of Portugal, and completed an entrepreneurship and business program at Notre Dame University. Career Tomé first worked as a credit analyst, and was an executive with an investment company. In 2011 she founded a firm called Ecokaya and served as its CEO. In 2020, she published the self-help book ''Succenergy: Activate Your Energy, Discover All Your Success inside You'', which led to an invitation to give a TEDx talk, followed by invitations to hos training seminars in several nations in Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mia Couto
António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto (born 5 July 1955), is a Mozambican writer. He won the Camões Prize in 2013, the most important literary award in the Portuguese language, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014. Life Early years Mia Couto was born in the city of Beira, Mozambique's third largest city, where he was also raised and schooled. He is the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the Portuguese colony in the 1950s. When he was 14 years old, some of his poetry was published in a local newspaper, ''Notícias da Beira''. Three years later, in 1971, he moved to the capital Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and began to study medicine at the University of Lourenço Marques. During this time, the anti-colonial guerrilla and political movement FRELIMO was struggling to overthrow the Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique. After independence of Mozambique In April 1974, after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon and the overthrow o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Mutola
Maria de Lurdes Mutola ( ; born 27 October 1972) is a retired female track and field athlete from Mozambique who specialised in the 800 metres running event. She is only the fourth female track and field athlete to compete at six Olympic Games. She is a three-time world champion in this event and a one-time Olympic champion. Although Mutola never broke the world record in her favourite event, she is regarded by many track insiders and fans as one of the greatest 800 metres female runners of all time due to her consistently good results in major championships and her exceptional longevity which saw her compete at the highest level for two decades before retiring from athletics in 2008 at the age of 35. She is also the only athlete ever to have won Olympic, World, World indoor, Commonwealth Games, Continental Games and Continental Championships titles in the same event. She is also the main coach and mentor of Caster Semenya. Career Early years Mutola was born in 1972 in the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Songane
Francisco Songane is a medical doctor and former Minister of Health of Mozambique who served from 2000 to 2004. He is a recognized "champion of maternal and child health" and has been "recognized both nationally and internationally for innovation and leadership" in the field of maternal and child health. Early career Dr. Songane is medical doctor specialized in obstetrician/gynaecologist and public health. His medical degree is from the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique. He trained at St. James University Hospital in Leeds, UK. He holds a master's degree in Public Health (MPH) from Boston University and Masters of Science in Financial Economics (MS) from the University of London, UK. World Health Organization In December 2005, Dr. Songane was named the new Director of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.infra note 2. This 'partnership' has more than 300 governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental members working to ensure the well-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Mondlane
Janet Rae Johnson Mondlane is an American-born Mozambican activist. Together with her husband, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, she founded Frelimo and helped organize the liberation of Mozambique from the Portuguese colonialists. Janet Rae Johnson was born in 1934 in Illinois, and was raised in a middle-upper class American family. In 1951 at the age of 17, she attended a church camp in Geneva, Wisconsin where she met the 31 year old Eduardo Mondlane, who was giving a speech about the future of Africa. In 1956, five years later, they married after she received her B.A. and he his M.A. At the time of their marriage, Janet was 22 and Eduardo was 36. They later had three children, Eduardo, Jr., Chude, and Nyeleti. In 1963 the Mondlanes moved with their family to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in order to organize the liberation factions fighting the Portuguese in Mozambique. Together they helped form Frelimo, and Mondlane was the director of the Mozambique Institute, the nonmilitary branch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FRELIMO
FRELIMO (; from the Portuguese , ) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It is the dominant party in Mozambique and has won a majority of the seats in the Assembly of the Republic in every election since the country's first multi-party election in 1994. Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist movement fighting for the self-determination and independence of Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. During its anti-colonial struggle, FRELIMO managed to maintain friendly relations with both the Soviet Union and China, and received military and economic assistance from both Moscow and Beijing. Independence was achieved in June 1975 after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon the previous year. It formally became a political party during its 3rd Party Congress in February 1977, and adopted Marxism–Leninism as its official ideology and FRELIMO Party () as its official name. FRELIMO has ruled Mozambique since then, initially as the sole legal party in a on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Massavanhane
Alberto Massavanhane ( – ) was a Mozambican diplomat, teacher, and the first Mayor of Maputo. After the signing of Lusaka Accord, in 1974, Massavanhane was nominated by Frelimo as Mayor of Lourenço Marques during the transition government, becoming the first Mozambican to be President of the Executive Council of Maputo after Independence of Mozambique in 1975. In 1983 Alberto Massavanhane was again called to be the head of Maputo local government, before being designated as Ambassador of Mozambique in the Kingdom of Sweden from 1988 until his death in 1993. Early years Alberto was born in Xai-Xai on February 9, 1930, district capital of Gaza, being the youngest of the three sons of Massavanhane Nhancume and his wife Chonipane, a family of small farmers and shepherds. By the age of 13 he went to live to Lourenço Marques, taking up his education in the Christian Mission of Magude. By the age of 20 in the same Magude Mission, he contracted religious marriage with Rosa Paulo C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogério Manjate
Rogério Manjate (born April 1972) is an actor, theater director and filmmaker from Mozambique, and an author of poetry and fiction. Early career Rogério Manjate was born in the Malanga neighborhood of Maputo in April 1972. He grew up there and as of 2002 still lived there. He studied agronomy at Eduardo Mondlane University. From 1991 he was a member of the ''Mbêu'' actors group, and from 1992 he was a member of the theater group ''Mutumbela Gogo'', working in both groups until 1995. Author and journalist In 2000 Rogério Manjate selected the texts for the book ''Colectânea Breve de Literatura Moçambicana'' (Short collection of Mozambican Literature). In 2001 he published a book of stories ''Amor Silvestre'' (Wild Love) which won the TDM Literary Prize in 2001. This book includes stories written over a period of several years, short and intense tales of urban and suburban life in contemporary Mozambique, miniatures that cover all aspects of people's lives: their struggles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samora Machel
Samora Moisés Machel (29 September 1933 – 19 October 1986) was a Mozambican military commander and political leader. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975. Machel died in office in 1986 when his presidential aircraft crashed near the Mozambican-South African border. Early life Machel was born in the village of Madragoa (today's Chilembene), Gaza Province, Mozambique, to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been an active collaborator of Gungunhana. Under Portuguese rule, his father, like most Black Mozambicans, was classified by the demeaning term "indígena" (native). He was forced to accept lower prices for his crops than White farmers; compelled to grow labour-intensive cotton, which took time away from the food crops needed for his family; and forbidden to brand his mark on his cattle to prevent thievery. However, Machel's father was a successful farmer: he o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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