ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how war survivors and their offspring negotiate temporalities of accountability in communities in conflict in Mozambique. Ethnographic records from numerous communities in Africa and around the world show how spirits are regarded as disembodied figures but also as persons with volition of their own and capable of influencing the lives of the living. Gorongosa is a rural district featuring political, legal and religious pluralism. Community and state institutions and actors diversely shape everyday life. The developments of formal legal mechanisms of accountability for serious violations perpetrated in contexts of mass political violence have boosted the practice of witnessing in the past decades. Regrettably the beginning of new military confrontations between the Frelimo government's army and Renamo did not allow to conduct follow-ups to further determine the struggles for accountability that might have arisen in the case of Tungadza offspring.
