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Accepted Paper:
Colonial Legacies and African Futures. Portugal's Intelligence Services and Their Impact on Mozambique During and After the Liberation War.
Sandra Araújo
(University of Warwick)
This paper examines the role of colonial intelligence services in Mozambique’s liberation struggle (1964-1974), and the impact they had on the country’s post-independence political landscape.
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines the role of colonial intelligence services in Mozambique’s liberation struggle (1964-1974), and the impact they had on the country’s post-independence political landscape. Deploying a mix of primary and secondary materials, and investigative methods, the paper first examines the two roles the intelligence apparatus performed during counterinsurgency: guide colonial military operations and political repression and generate studies to inform the colony’s policy-making process. The paper then discusses the complexities and shortcomings surrounding the prospective nature of such studies whose purpose was to engender evidence-based actionable knowledge to influence the course of events. The paper concludes by examining the impact of these policy-oriented documents and the forecasts they contain during and after the liberation war, namely in the policy of the newly independent state.