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Africa’s ongoing revolution
Mark Sappenfield
Editor
A revolution is unfolding across southern Africa. The parties and movements that liberated the region from colonialism are now themselves seen as impediments to progress or even corrupt oppressors.
In their story today, Samuel Comé and Ryan Lenora Brown look through the lens of Mozambique and one family in particular, the Nhacas. Perhaps it is not yet an “African Spring,” but in the quest for honest, responsive government, it is a telling moment.
