Jacana Media is proud to present Moira Forjaz: Mozambique 1975/1985 – a collection of forgotten photographs of Mozambique’s history:

Moira’s photographs feature striking episodes of colonial history, including the anti-apartheid struggle, the battle for Zimbabwe and the national reconstruction in Mozambique. But what makes this book truly remarkable is that it brings a personal note to historical episodes, adding humour and a human touch.

Of particular note are the series on Ilha de Moçambique, miners and cotton, and also the images of Samora Machel addressing a rally. There are touching photographs of Ruth First, Joe Slovo and Graça Machel.

“There is a photograph of Moira’s that I look at daily and sometimes even hourly. It hangs on the wall of my study opposite my desk. If I need to think, if I’m having trouble framing a word or a sentence or even trying to work out what I really want to say, I look up from my computer and I am drawn to that image.

It’s a photograph of Ruth First, smiling with the light in her hair: the last photograph ever taken of her. Even after all these years since my mother’s death, every time I look at the photo, I remember her as she could be then: full of light and full of life. How wonderful to know that this is how she was hours before they killed her.” – Gillian Slovo

Many of the photographs in this book have been printed for the first time as they always existed as negatives, kept in a shoebox, forgotten, until now.

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Book details

• Moira Forjaz: Mozambique 1975/1985 by Moira Forjaz
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  EAN: 9781928232162
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