People on Mozambique's street signs

Samora Machel

5 Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary. A socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism, he served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in...

Julius Nyerere

3 Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to...

Patrice Lumumba

3 Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic from June until September 1960, following the May 1960...

Eduardo Mondlane

2 Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane was a Mozambican revolutionary and anthropologist who was the founder of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). He served as the FRELIMO's first leader until his...

Ferdinand Magellan

2 Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he discovered the Strait of Magellan,...

Filipe Samuel Magaia

2 Filipe Samuel Magaia was a Mozambican revolutionary and guerrilla leader. He was the Secretary of Defense for the Mozambican FRELIMO organisation during the Mozambican War of Independence. After a...

Amílcar Cabral

2 Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, diplomat, and half-brother of Luís Cabral who was the 1st President of Guinea-Bissau. He was...

Almeida Garrett

2 João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, 1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician, and a peer of the realm. A major...

Sebastião Marcos Mabote

2 Sebastião Chinguane Marcos Mabote war ein mosambikanischer Generaloberst und Politiker.