ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that lacuna by employing the control and facilitation framework to explain revolutionary change in one of the newly independent states: Mozambique. It provides the preindependence social system of Mozambique into its constituent functional subsystems and analyzes the interchanges and the hierarchy of control and facilitation among them. The chapter shows how systemic dissynchronization, African collectivity formation, cognitive dissonance among Mozambique's African elite, and the influence of variant values and norms combined in giving rise to the nationalist movement and the organization of an alternative social system. It deals with the effects of racial, ethnic, and class cleavages among Africans on the mobilization of political power. The chapter examines the threads together to indicate the directions and extent of change to be expected in the emerging social system of independent Mozambique. Since gaining full independence on 25 June 1975, Frente de Libertacao de Mozambique has taken steps to generalize its alternative social system to the whole of Mozambique.
