Samora Machel on National Liberation
(Extracted Speech by Samora Machel, “Pretoria is a Cancer”, at the 26th Organisation of African Unity – OAU – Liberation Committee Ordinary Session in Mozambique, 19 – 24 January 1976).
“National liberation is a process that starts with national resistance to foreign occupation and that only ends when all forms of imperialist domination have been finally liquidated. National liberation is the fight to win full political independence. National liberation is the cultural fight to assert our African personality. National liberation is the fight against the military presence of imperialist bases of aggression on our Continent. National liberation is our countries’ fight to recover the right to exploit our natural resources for our own benefit.
“National liberation is the fight against imperialist economic order in international relations. National liberation is the fight by all the peoples of our Continent to freely choose the political and economic order that best suits them. National liberation is the affirmation of the right of each people to choose their own friends …”
– Samora Machel –(19 – 24 January 1976)
Source:Samora Machel, “Pretoria is a Cancer”, at the 26th OAU Liberation Committee Ordinary Session in Mozambique, 19 – 24 January 1976, Sechaba, Second Quarter 1976.
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