Many ask, before reading The Hoe & the Gun, why it has that title. This title is based on the Mozambique national flag and within the story line is the Mozambique Civil War. The Mozambique flag was adopted on 1 May 1983. It includes the image of an AK-47 with a bayonet attached to the […]
The Mozambique Civil War was categorised as a low-intensity, intra-state conflict even though it is notorious for the scale of human suffering and lives lost over its fifteen-year duration. Just two years after ushering in independence from Portugal, Mozambique’s liberation movement, the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), encountered resistance from the armed rebel group […]
ActionAid began work in Mozambique in 1987, initially providing emergency relief to people fleeing the civil war which lasted for 16 years and left millions dead or displaced. Today ActionAid’s key areas of work include education, women’s rights and ending hunger. Author Chris Marrow helped ActionAid to get food aid to the needy and was […]
