Published by Livraria Moderna, 2000

Hardcover without jacket in good condition. 

Mozambique: April to September, 1974, within the historically minute space of six chaotic and shocking months Portuguese rule in Mozambique collapsed entirely, and Frelimo took power to establish a rigid Mao-Communist regime.

How, and above all why, did it happen? Giancarlo Coccia was the only Western journalist to travel freely throughout Mozambique during the transitional period. A close friend of the war-torn north he was able to witness the day-by-day collapse of Portuguese rule the intimate reasons for it at remarkably close quarters.