O que tratava “Wakuru-Wakuru Ne Wazungu” eu não sei : a interpretação sociopolítica da base da Renamo na província de Manica, um estudo de caso sobre os motivos da aderência do povo Shona à guerra civil (1976-1986)

Abstract

The work deals with the socio-political interpretation of the Renamo base in Manica province inhabited by the Shona ethnic group subdivided into small tribes during the context of the civil war in Mozambique. Based on reports from the base actors, with emphasis on guerrillas, mudjibas, mambos and the population that lived in areas under Renamo’s jurisdiction. This material is crossed with the historiography that already exists to determine what the political-moral sentiment of the group was about the civil war. With the evolution of the war in Mozambique, Renamo ceased to be defined only as a guerrilla movement and started to be structured as a political party, in order to be able to internationalize and also try to clean up its image of armed band its. In this context, the work was conceived on the basis of two sources, oral sources that it was possible to interview the actors who did not belong to the elite of the movements such as the guerrillas, mudjibas and the Renamo population and in the written sources we connect the old and the new interpretation. on the origin of armed resistance in Mozambique. It was on the basis of them that we were able to map the research area, which also facilitated the understanding of concepts such as: armed bandits, new man, enemy, cooperative and communal villages for the construction of our understanding of population sentiment in a time frame between 1976 and 1986. The interviews with the Renamo base demonstrated the distance from the different interpretations of historians about Renamo.