History is a controled fiction
Memories and silences in the mozambican nation
Mozambican Literature; FRELIMO; Ngungunhane
This research work will approach de speeches of mozambican national identity construction, made by FRELIMO (the Mozambican Liberation Front) in the decades of 1970 and 1980, as well as the formation of dissonant voices in face of those speeches, like the book Ualalapi, from the writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa. After the independence war, FRELIMO put itself the quest of founding the national core of the newly freed country. To do so, the front reaches the image of the nguni chief that had ruled over large part of what would became Mozambique: Ngungunhane. As the nguni ruler resisted the attempts of portuguese dominance, his memory would be exemple for the mozambican people’s resistance to external threats. In his turn, Khosa, brings up another memory of Ngungunhane wich is also of dominance of other peoples that form the mozambican nation.