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1980 to the present
Estudos Moçambicanos is the academic journal of the Centro de Estudos Africanos at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, and was founded in 1979-1980 by Ruth First and Aquino de Bragança. Originally it was quite explicitly a vehicle for the Marxist analysis of Mozambican reality. The review, said the first editorial (signed R.F.)
publicará artigos inseridos no campo geral das ciências sociais, da autoria … em especial de não-académicos. Estudos Moçambicanos assume desde já como princípio a rejeição da divisão de trabalho na produção do conhecimento característico da burguesia, e o departmentalismo e carreirismo académico, bem como o isolamento profissional que aquela divisão de trabalho gera. Uma análise materialista assenta, afinal, numa insistência de que é artificial e arbitrária a separação entre os aspectos económicos, políticos, sociais e culturais de um mesmo todo.
The first three issues appeared under the editorial direction of Ruth First. The theme of the first, 120-page number was «Subdesenvolvimento e Trabalho Migratório», the migrant labour component of this formulation reflecting the CEA’s main research interest at the time the issue was published. After Ruth was assassinated, no numbers were published in 1982, but the journal was revived in 1983 (‘relançamo-nos’) although the original ambition of two issues per year was only achieved again rarely. The most recent issue was published in March 2014.
The Series of Estudos Moçambicanos
Click on the covers to see a contents page for that issue, with links to the full text of the articles. All content from no.1 to no.23 is now available, including the English versions of articles from the first two issues, published in Mozambican Studies [Amsterdam].
