Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique - Lina Magaia

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Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life: Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique, Lina Magaia, translated from Portuguese by Michael Wolfers, 1988, Mozambique, NONFICTION

""And I heard it being said that there was civil war in Mozambique. Civil war!? What is civil war? Wars, whether civil or not, are waged between armed contingents. That's not what's happening in Mozambique. There's no civil war in Mozambique. In Mozambique there is genocide perpetrated by armed men against defenseless populations. Against peasants." These true accounts are Lina Magaia's attempt to bring to an international public the reality of rural life in her country, where people are terrorized by the Mozambique National Resistance (MNR), a group with clear ties to the South African apartheid regime and to ex-colonialists now in Portugal..."

(E.B., p. 316)