Alguns impactos políticos da emigração das populações da circunscrição dos Macondes para o Tanganyika: Lázaro N'Kavandame: um estudo de caso, 1955-1960

Abstract

In this graduation thesis project we try to understand how Lázaro N'Kavandame conceived Mozambican independence as an economic construction based on the assumptions of self-improvement, and to understand the root of his disagreements with his companions from the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique. The Portuguese blocked all possibilities of advancement, but N'Kavandame saw them in the context of cross-border trade, illegal emigration and the action of some non-Portuguese Catholic missions, such as the Dutch Monfortine Fathers. These, despite the Concordat and the Missionary Agreement, played a central role in reducing the social burden of a colonial policy based on repression. The empowerment of the natives that they provided evolved, at times, from a subsistence scenario to a platform of economic provision beyond basic needs. It is this platform which then becomes the central theatre of the peasants' revolt against the colonial regime in 1960 when it definitively crystallizes as a phenomenon at odds with the general interests of the white settlers, the concessionaries and the Portuguese vision of the colonial situation itself. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)