Development, construction of democracy and nationality In African countries: challenge for the millennium

Abstract

Text of the opening conference of the symposium on reflection on the 30 years since the death of Samora Machel, organized by the African Studies Center of the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, from September 1-3, 2016. It addresses the challenges that many African countries find to build the peace necessary to build their nationalities, their democracies and the processes of their socio-economic development. In Mozambique, as in many other countries of the continent, the hostilities of the civil war, which were thought to have already been overcome, are again returning. Hence the need for this symposium, whose reflections started from the political legacy of Samora Machel. The conference started with a reflection on the general situation of the countries of the continent under similar conditions, in order to finally get closer to Mozambique.