ABSTRACT
Like Angola, Mozambique’s ties with Portugal date back 400 years. However, until the late nineteenth century, Portugal’s control of the country was largely confined to the coastal regions and it was only with the general European scramble for Africa that Lisbon sought to extend actual control over the rest of the territory, sparking African resistance that lasted until the 1930s. As in much of Africa, nationalism developed in Mozambique after the Second World War and a number of political parties were formed to express Mozambican anti-colonial sentiment (Munslow, 1983).
