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Major Themes in Mozambigan Foreign Relations, 1975–1977

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

William Minter
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Mozambique “switched from a pro-Chinese to a pro-Soviet stance during the Angolan civil war,” writes a commentator in the influential U.S. quarterly Foreign Policy of Fall 1977. “Mozambique said to Cool on Soviets, Turn West,” headlines a Washington Post dispatch of December 15, 1977. The Economist’s Foreign Report claims in its advertising to have been the first to describe the ideological infighting within FRELIMO and the swing to Russia. The commentators seemed to have missed Mozambique’s 1977 trade fair in September, at which the People’s Republic of China won first prize for an exhibit corresponding to Mozambique’s needs, but if they had been there one might well have seen headlines proclaiming Mozambique’s shift back to China.

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African Issues , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Spring 1978 , pp. 43 - 49
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1978 

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Notes

1. Adelman, Kenneth L., “The Black Man’s Burden,” Foreign Policy no. 28 (Fall, 1977), p. 94.Google Scholar

2. Advertisement in Foreign Policy no. 24 (Fall, 1976), p. 222.

3. Tempo, June 8, 1975, p. 27.

4. See John Saul, “FRELIMO and the Mozambique Revolution,” pp. 378-405, in Giovanni Arrighi and John S. Saul, Essays on the Political Economy of Africa (New York: Monthly Review, 1973); and “Relatorio do Comite Central ao III Congresso,” pp. 17-52, in Tempo, Feb. 6, 1977. An alternate interpretation is given by Walter C. Opello, Jr., “Pluralism and Elite Conflict in an Independence Movement: FRELIMO in the 1960s,” pp. 66-82 in Journal of Southern African Studies (Oct., 1975).

5. Tanzania Sunday News, Dec. 4, 1977.

6. Tanzania Daily News, Jan. 16, 1976.

7. Financial Mail (Johannesburg), Jan. 21, 1977, p. 157; June 10, 1977, p. 871; Aug. 5, 1977, p. 489.

8. Tempo, Feb. 6, 1977, p. 51.

9. Tempo, March 7, 1976, p. 9.

10. Africa News, Jan. 17, 1977, p. 4.

11. See William Minter, Portuguese Africa and the West (New York: Monthly Review, 1973) for a brief overview.

12. See Immanuel Wallerstein, “Yankee, Stay Homel” pp. 489-92 in The Nation, Nov. 12, 1977.

13. Southern Africa (Nov., 1977), p. 19.

14. Tanzania Daily News, Nov. 8, 1977.

Note: Other background sources for this paper include Tempo magazine (weekly, Maputo), bulletins of the Mozambique Information Agency, and Africa News clipping files.