Eduardo Mondlane

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Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (20 June 1920 – 3 February 1969) served as the founding President of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) from 1962, the year that FRELIMO was founded in Tanzania, until his assassination in 1969.

He was an anthropologist by profession but worked as a history and sociology professor at Syracuse University.

Early life

The fourth of 16 sons of a chief of the Bantu-speaking Tsonga, Mondlane was born in "N'wajahani", district of Mandlakazi in the province of Gaza," in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) in 1920. He worked as a shepherd until the age of 12. He attended several different primary schools before enrolling in a Swiss–Presbyterian school near Manjacaze. However, he ended his secondary education in the same organisation's church school at Lemana College at Njhakanjhaka Village above Elim Hospital in the Transvaal (Limpopo Province), South Africa. He then spent one year at the Jan H. Hofmeyr School of Social Work before enrolling in Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg but was expelled from South Africa after only a year, in 1949, following the rise of the Apartheid government. In June 1950 Mondlane entered the University of Lisbon, at Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. By Mondlane's request, he was transferred to the United States, where he entered Oberlin College in Ohio at the age of 31, under a Phelps Stokes scholarship. Mondlane enrolled at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1951, starting as a junior, and in 1953 he obtained a degree in anthropology and sociology. He continued his studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Mondlane earned an MA (1955), and then a PhD (1960) under the supervision of Melville J. Herskovits on the subject of "Role conflict, reference group, and race". In 1956 he married Janet Rae Johnson, a white American woman from Indiana whom he met at a Methodist Youth conference."

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Anthropology career

Mondlane began working in 1957 as a research officer in the UN's Trusteeship Department, allowing him to travel to Africa and work on a PhD thesis at Northwestern University. His dissertation, under Herskovits' guidance, was in the style of Franz Boas (who had taught Herskovits) and the Chicago school — namely, the great American liberal tradition. He completed his PhD in 1960 and resigned from his United Nations post in 1961 in order to participate in political activism. He took up teaching at Syracuse University the same year where he helped develop the East African Studies Program. He resigned from Syracuse's post in 1963 to join Frelimo in the liberation war, which he won in June 1962.

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