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The Death of Samora Moises Machel - A Funeral Eulogy

The Death of Samora Moises Machel - A Funeral Eulogy

VOICES FOR LIBERATION

Creator

Marcelino dos Santos; The Africa Fund

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

Undated, about late November or December 1986

Type of Item

Pamphlet

Length/duration

13 pages

Description
The pamphlet features the Funeral Eulogy delivered by Marcelino dos Santos for Samora Moises Machel, the President of Frelimo and of the People's Republic of Mozambique, translated by the Mozambican news agency AIM. An introduction by The Africa Fund praised Santos' eulogy for its "moving eloquence of Machel's life, the struggle for independence and the goals that motivated Machel and all of FRELIMO." The introduction also described the circumstances of Samora Machel's death in a plane crash on October 19, 1986, along with a number of other prominent Mozambicans. There is substantial evidence suggesting that South Africa was directly in Details.