A luta continua

This article is about the political rallying cry. For the album by Big Youth, see A Luta Continua. For the Italian extra-parliamentary organization, see Lotta Continua.

A luta continua (Portuguese for "the struggle continues") was a slogan used by the FRELIMO movement during Mozambique's war for independence from Portuguese colonial rule. The phrase, coined by FRELIMO's first president, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, was employed to rally support in the liberated zones of Mozambique.[1] After Mondlane's assassination in 1969, his successor, Samora Machel, continued to use the slogan to mobilize the population in the post-independence era. Machel, who became the first president of an independent Mozambique in 1975, utilized "A luta continua" as an unofficial national motto. The slogan encapsulated Mondlane's vision: "We fight together, and together we rebuild and recreate our country, producing a new reality—a New Mozambique, United and Freed."[2]

The phrase remains culturally significant in Mozambique, with posters bearing the slogan still visible in Maputo, the nation's capital.[3][4]

  1. ^ Silva, Nilce Da (2009). "Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane no século XXI e a luta continua!". Acolhendo a Alfabetização Nos Países de Língua Portuguesa. 3 (6). doi:10.11606/issn.1980-7686.v3i6p14-68.
  2. ^ "Mozambique celebrates costly freedom" BBC News
  3. ^ “Mozambique rethinking its dreams” New York Times
  4. ^ Mozambique