Os missionários suíços face ao nacionalismo moçambicano: entre a Tsonganidade e a Moçambicanidade

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Title:	Os missionários suíços face ao nacionalismo moçambicano: entre a Tsonganidade e a Moçambicanidade
Author:	Ngoenha, Severino Elias
Year:	1999
Periodical:	Lusotopie
Pages:	425-436
Language:	Portuguese
Geographic terms:	Mozambique Portugal
Subjects:	missions nationalism colonialism
External link:	http://lusotopie.sciencespobordeaux.fr/ngoenha.pdf
Abstract:	This article examines the role of the Swiss mission in southern Mozambique, in particular in the emergence of a nationalist movement under Portuguese colonialism. When the attitude of the Portuguese towards the Protestant mission began to harden in the 1920s, the Swiss missionaries decided to employ a lawyer, André Clerc, to help them maintain their position in the area. Clerc's strategy was to promote the development of Tsonga nationalism (Tsonganidade) as opposed to Portuguese 'Moçambicanidade'. Tsonganidade was seen as a factor which could support the Swiss presence in Mozambique, although this vision was not shared by all missionaries. After 1945 a new generation of missionaries, trained in the postwar school of liberation theology, appeared, who also talked about the development of nationalism, but with a different objective. From 1960 onwards, almost all missionaries in Mozambique were ready to support nationalism, albeit for varying reasons. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in English, French and Portuguese (p. 596-597), text in Portuguese.