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- noun The nationalist
political party ofMozambique , which fought for independence and formed the government after independence in 1975.
Etymologies
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The calamitous civil war, on the other hand, by exposing faultlines in Frelimo's claim to represent "the Mozambican people" in its ambitious crusade to modernize the nation's economy and culture, has freed women to question the government's early condemnation of their most cherished traditions and to do so in a manner not possible in the immediate afterglow of independence.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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While Magude was not one of the highest-priority areas in Frelimo's planned socialist transformation of the countryside, it was nonetheless a district whose relative prosperity and proven potential for commercial livestock and irrigated cash-crop production earned it a respectable standing in the new government's development scheme.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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After joining a nationalist guerrilla group called the Front for Liberation of Mozambique, known by the acronym Frelimo, he was arrested by the Portuguese military police and spent 18 months in jail.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011
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Most smaller parties withdrew from the polls due to lack of sufficient support, leaving the Liberation Front of Mozambique, better known as Frelimo, and the opposition Renamo as the main contenders.
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Further north, O Partido, as many call Frelimo, faces more competition.
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In a conversation with friends about the letter one of them suggested that if by chance Azagaia would twist his ankle in his bathtub, probably, he would find it to be the doings of Frelimo.
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009
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A crença que Azagaia, e tantas outras pessoas em Moçambique, têm de que é perseguido pela Frelimo [pt] pode até ser infundada, mas tem efeitos reais nas acções daqueles que acreditam incluído o próprio Azagaia.
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009
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Em conversava com dois amigos sobre a carta um deles sugeriu que se por acaso Azagaia torcesse o pé no seu banheiro, provavelmente, acharia que é obra da Frelimo.
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009
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But, and similarly to the colonial regime and revolutionary Frelimo, he criticizes often without substance and prefers, to the contrary to expend all of his energy creating the “common enemy”.
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009
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In came revolutionary Frelimo that never tired of created common enemies: Xiconhocas, internal enemies, saboteurs, capitalists, bourgeois, armed bandits (in the metaphorical sense), reactionaries, etc.
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009
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