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- Uria Timoteo Simango was a Mozambican Presbyterian minister and prominent leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front during the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule.
- A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap. Janne RantalaUniversity College Cork.
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Uria Simango
Mozambican dissident
Uria Simango | |
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Simango (far right) with fellow captive Paulo Gumane and captors Marcelino dos SantosSamora Machel on 11 May 1975. Simango and Gumane were quietly executed sometime over the next 5 years. | |
| Born | Uria Timoteo Simango (1926-03-15)15 March 1926 Mozambique |
| Died | c. October 1979 (aged 52–53)[1] |
| Cause of death | Extrajudicial execution |
| Political party | National Coalition Party (1974- ) FRELIMO (1962-1970) |
| Movement | Mozambique Liberation |
| Opponent | FRELIMO (after 1970) |
| Criminal charges | Treason |
| Criminal penalty | Execution |
| Spouse | Celina |
Uria Timoteo Simango (15 March 1926 - c. October 1979)[1] was a Mozambican Presbyterian minister and prominent leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) during the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. His precise date of death is unknown as he was extrajudicially executed along with several other FRELIMO dissidents and his wife, Celina[2] by the post-independence government of Samora Machel
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Companion Site to a Journal Article: A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2024.2372556
Journal of Southern African Studies, 50 (1), 2024.
Janne Rantala
A Sonic Biography of an Afterlife: The Expelled Liberation Leader Uria Simango in Mozambican Rap
Welcome to the companion site to my Journal of Southern African Studies article about Mozambican rap music and its makers that invoke vilified revolutionary leader Uria Simango.
Simango was one of the founders (1962) and vice-president (1962-1969) of Mozambique’s dominant liberation front the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo), which fought the Portuguese colonialism in an armed struggle between 1964 and 1974. The article contributes in debates about the liberation memory and dissidence in southern Africa and for Hip Hop studies it suggests application of Hip Hop scholar’s lenses to a variety of other types of historical sources and research materials directly or indirectly related to this music; in this pa
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Adelino Timóteo has recently launched his book, “The Last Days of Uria Simango” in Beira.
Uria Simango, father of the current mayor of Beira, Daviz Simango, was one of the leaders of the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) in the struggle for national independence in the 1960s.
It is said that Simango was extra-judicially executed by Frelimo itself after independence in 1975, allegedly for treason. He was among those dubbed ‘reactionaries’ by the Maputo authorities, along with his wife Celina Simango and other Frelimo dissidents.
But author Adelino Timóteo’s research has uncovered a different Simango to that Frelimo has always presented.
“I discovered that Uria Simango is not that person who is said to have been ‘a seller-out of the motherland’, who handed himself over to the Portuguese to sell out national independence,” he says.
In the VOA interview below, Timóteo talks about a Simango considered “a very radical individual” by the Portuguese, “more radical than Eduardo Mondlane (…) a misundersto
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