João Craveirinha Jr
Day of Mozambican Heroes, February 3rd 1978
Two-colour offset lithograph, DNPP, Maputo
Mozambican Heroes Day commemorates the 1969 assassination of Eduardo Mondlane, Frelimo’s first president, and all other victims of the Armed Struggle. The posters features a photograph by Daniel Maquinasse of a Frelimo guerrilla bonding with a peasant in one of the Front’s Liberated Zones. Frelimo militants came from diverse parts of Mozambique, but overcame differences of language and culture by joining local residents in agricultural production and cultural activities, such as dances.
