Explain Six reasons why it took long for Mozambique to decolonize

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- Portuguese had to keep her hold to Mozambique to sustain her economy
- Portugal encouraged western multinatural l companies to come toMozambique
- There was high settlement of whites in Mozambique who utilized the cheap labour provided by
Africans.
- Africans were forced to grow cash crops leaving them without food crops hence forced to work
for wage labour.
- There was vigorous and strict censorship of any nationalistic movement by Security forces.
- The authoritarian government of the Salazar in Portugal outlawed any form of political
association or trade unions in colonies .
- The policy of assimilado cheated Africans that was democracy but only but only on paper/ the
educated Africans were elevated from native class hence they were blind folded
- Racialism undermined nationalism where Africans were prejudiced by whites
- There was heavy police surveillance which supervised any protest from Africa.
- There were very few educated Africans who could initiate revolutionalistic ideas.

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a) Mozambique was colonized by a colonial power that was very poor and backward and which
needed to keep its hold on her to enable her economy grow. She was an important source of revenue
for the Lisbon government.
b) Mozambique housed many settlers who had invested heavily in farming, mining, building,
construction and in other sectors. They were therefore reluctant to leave.
c) Mozambique was an important market for Portuguese products. Portugal was not willing to let go
easily.
d) The support, which the colonial government got from South Africa, enabled them to get
uranium, which they used, for making bombs used to suppress African independence riots. They also
got electricity and assistance to built caborra bassa dam on Zambezi.
e) Mozambique was big geographically with very poor infrastructure i.e. roads and communication
facilities. This hampered fast movement of people and ideas.
f) Unlike other colonized countries, Mozambique suffered the worst kind of exploitation and
repression/ rigorous censorship and surveillance by security forces, which discouraged emergence of
nationalism.
g) The Portuguese practiced racism out of fear that if they educated Africans and gave them equal
status, the Africans would outnumber them and throw them out

gideon1 answered the question on October 10, 2017 at 14:33

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