*nods* The drawn-out guerilla battles with FRELIMO and other anticolonial splinter groups were also a major destabilising factor in all of sub-Saharan Africa in the 1960s and 1970s -- it's arguable that the mess that followed Rhodesian UDI and contributed to the strength of the apartheid regime in South Africa up through the 1990s was in no small part due to Portugal's inability/unwillingness to extricate itself from its colonial claim in Mozambique.
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Date: 2010-07-22 01:14 pm (UTC)