Preface VII
List of Contributors IX
Introduction – Situating Mozambican Histories, Epistemologies, and Potentialities 1
Maria Paula Meneses, Sheila Pereira Khan and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
1
‘No passado o futuro era melhor?’: Mozambique’s Democracy in Question 39
Anna Maria Gentili
2
Mirrors and Contrasts: Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in Manica, Mozambique 57
Randi Kaarhus
3
From Celebrating Female Emancipation to Emplacing Emperor Ngungunyane: Remoulding the Past in Mozambican National Narratology 76
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
4
Urban Transformation, Family Strategies and Home Space Creation in the City of Maputo 96
Ana Bénard da Costa
5
A Possible Triangle: Employment, Aid, and Mineral Wealth 116
Lia Quartapelle
6
(Re)configurations of Identity: Memory and Creation in the Narrative of Mia Couto 135
Ana Margarida Fonseca
7
Dialogues with the Past – and with the Future: Ualalapi and Jesusalém 153
Anne Sletsjøe
Leonor Simas-Almeida and Sandra Sousa
9
Mozambican Capulanas: Tracing Histories and Memories 186
Signe Arnfred and Maria Paula Meneses
10
Healing the Pain of War through Art: Mozambique’s Grassroots Approach to Post-conflict Resolution – Transformação de Armas em Enxadas 211
Amy Schwartzott
11
‘Taking Ownership’: The Brazilian Pentecostal Project to Change Mozambique 235
Linda van de Kamp
12
Singing Struggles, Affirming Politics: Mozambique’s Revolutionary Songs as Other Ways of Being (in) History 254
Maria Paula Meneses
13
Scientific Research and Epistemological Violence 279
José Luis Cabaço
Index 289