Eduardo Mondlane, an educator, nationalist, and leader of the Mozambique independence movement, was born on June 20, 1920, in the Gaza District of Southern Mozambique, which at the time was under the colonial rule of the Portuguese. He was the child of a Tsonga chief, the fourth of sixteen sons, and the only one of his family to receive even a primary education. Mondlane attended a number of mission primary schools and also worked as a shepherd for part of his youth before obtaining a scholarship to attend a Presbyterian secondary school in the Transvaal, South Africa. Mondlane was admitted to Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, but in 1949, only a year later, he was expelled from South Africa because his views came into conflict with the government’s apartheid policies. Eduardo Mondlane continued his education. In 1950, he was accepted into the University of Lisbon, Portugal but later transferred to Oberlin College, located in Oberlin, Ohio in the United States. Mondlane obtained a degree in sociology and anthropology from Oberlin College, and then completed a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University in Illinois. Later, when he became leader of Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique (FRELIMO), Mondlane always made education for young … Continue reading Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (1920-1969)