Kupilikula : Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique, by Harry G. West : book review

Extracted from text ... Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique. By HARRY G. WEST. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxvii + 362 pp. ISBN 0 226 89405 3. Harry West's book is an important contribution to Mozambican studies, and specifically to our unders...

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Published in:South African Historical Journal 2006-01, Vol.55 (1), p.241-243
Main Author: Darch, Colin
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Extracted from text ... Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique. By HARRY G. WEST. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxvii + 362 pp. ISBN 0 226 89405 3. Harry West's book is an important contribution to Mozambican studies, and specifically to our understanding of the society of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, an area of some significance in the contested history of the struggle for national independence waged by Frelimo from 1964 to 1974. As West says, Mueda district is 'a region sometimes called the cradle of the Frelimo revolution because Frelimo had maintained its central base there ..
ISSN:0258-2473
1726-1686