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Article: From war to peace on the Mozambique-Malawi borderland. .(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- June 1, 2003
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ENGLUND, HARRI. From war to peace on the Mozambique-Malawi borderland. x, 217 pp., maps, figs., bibliogr. Edinburgh: Univ. Press, 2002. [pounds sterling]16.99 (paper)
Even before celebrations of Mozambican independence ended in the late 1970s, the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) was confronted with a military foe inside the nation's borders. For more than a decade, the FRELIMO government described its adversary as 'bandits'. Most scholars treated the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) with equal disdain, tracing its ties to the security forces of Ian Smith's regime in Southern Rhodesia and its continuing support, after Zimbabwean independence in 1980, ...