Do “vento da emancipação” à “força motriz da revolução” : a mulher nos discursos de Samora Moisés Machel (Moçambique) (1973 – 1980)

Abstract

This work of research aims to analyse the speeches proffered by Samora Moisés Machel, revolutionary leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and the first Mozambique president, from 1973 to 1980, within the scope of a political and ideological project that aimed the emancipation of women. Therefore, we contextualize FRELIMO’s first years of formation and the beginning of the anti-colonialist fight which resulted on the establishment of the Frelimo’s government after the independence. After this stage, it was possible to understand the first steps of the project articulated by Frelimo as well as the importance of the creation of the Female Detachment, in 1967, and of the Mozambican Women Organization, in 1973, throughout the speech proffered during the I Mozambican Women Congress. The last analytic stage of the work consists in observing the ambiguities in the speeches proffered within the scope of the political and ideological project development during the Samora Moisés Machel government. Hereupon, we problematize the differences found in the speeches, from 1973 and after 1976, that when reflecting upon the political situation in which they were proffered, validate the project supporting FRELIMO’s goals about feminine emancipation.