Book Review: “The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990” By Benedito Machava

CASAS’ member Boaventura Monjane has published this book review in South African Historical Journal.

This book review states that: “In The Morality of Revolution, Benedito Luís Machava offers a groundbreaking and unsettling exploration of the carceral imagination of the Mozambican post independence state.(…) This work stands as a major contribution to Africal political history, the anthropology of punishment and critical studies of revolutionary governance” (p. 1)

Read the review here: https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2025.2549568

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