Former home of Samora Machel in Maputo could become a museum
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Club of Mozambique
Calls have been made to turn the Mafalala house in Maputo where Samora Machel lived as a tenant in the 1960s into a museum dedicated to Mozambique’s first president. Forty years after his death, the building, now rebuilt in masonry, retains few traces of its original form, Lusa reports.
Calls are growing in Mafalala, a neighbourhood of Maputo, to turn the former house where Samora Machel, Mozambique’s first president, lived as a tenant in the 1960s into a museum. The proposal comes 40 years after his death, Mozambican outlet Club of Mozambique reports.
At the time a nurse, Machel lived in a small house made of wood and corrugated iron, before leading the national liberation struggle and then independent Mozambique. The building, rebuilt in masonry and modernised over time, retains few traces of its original structure. Machel’s historic party, Frelimo, has also called for his legacy to be preserved in Nampula.
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