ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the paths of two key sojourners through Dar es Salaam: Mozambican nationalist Eduardo Mondlane and Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara. It follows Mondlane's journey from rural Mozambique to university in the United States and then on to Tanzania to head the Mozambican Liberation Front. Of Tanzania's stable of southern African liberation movements, none was as important as Frelimo. Mozambique's proximity to Tanganyika and the sheer length of time Frelimo was headquartered there both played a part. Mondlane's victory draws attention to some key features of the political sociology of Dar es Salaam's community of liberation movement activists. As both Mondlane's and Che's stories highlight, the unevenness—both the successes and failures—involved in leveraging political connections and vocabularies across space and time played a key part in shaping Dar's world of exile politics. Mondlane's victory draws attention to some key features of the political sociology of Dar es Salaam's community of liberation movement activists.