Abstract

In his in-depth and compelling study of perhaps the most famous of Portuguese colonial massacres, Mustafah Dhada explores why the massacre took place, what Wiriyamu was like prior to the massacre, how events unfolded, how we came to know about it and what the impact of the massacre was, particularly for the Portuguese empire. Spanning the period from 1964 to 2013 and complete with a foreword from Peter Pringle, this chronologically arranged book covers the liberation war in Mozambique and uses fieldwork, interviews and archival sources to place the massacre firmly in its historical context.
 

Bio note

Mustafah Dhada is Associate Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, Coimbra University, Portugal. Professor of History at California State University, Bakersfield, USA. He is the author of Warriors at Work (1993) and The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013 (2015).
 

Org.:  Democracy, Citizenship and Law Research Group (DECIDe), Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group (NHUMEP), Doctoral Programmes "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" and "Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship"