The precipitous rise and controversial fall of a formidable African leader. Samora Machel (1933–1986), the son of small-town farmers, led his people through a

In 1974, Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory over the Portuguese colonial government. The following year, he became the first

First published by Panaf in 1989, this was the first major biography of Samora Machel after his death in 1986. The author, a journalist who had known Machel sin