ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 explores the nature of Mozambican exile during decolonization. It demonstrates that exiles and their allies developed unique transnational networking skills, which helped them further their educational trajectories as one way to challenge Portuguese colonial rule. It takes as its primary focus the life of Eduardo Mondlane, first president of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO), and uses Mondlane’s life as a lens through which to view how colonial education (and the cosmopolitan networks of solidarity that undergirded it) helped generate a collective sense of Mozambican identity. It charts Mondlane’s education throughout the Atlantic world in the 1940s and 1950s, with special emphasis on the networks he helped forge to assist the education of other Mozambicans. Using letters, speeches, and other correspondence exchanged between Eduardo and a host of Mozambican exiles, it argues exiles generated strong networks of solidarity with one another and with activists around the world. To that end, it examines the exile and activism of Janet Mondlane (Eduardo’s American wife), who emerged as an advocate for Mozambican refugee education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
