Mueda Memory and Massacre

Mueda was a massacre The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place The Portuguese colonial regime did the killing In independent Mozambique those inhabitants of Mueda who survived regularly reenact the massacre in situ They themselves play the roles of victims assassins and spectators Ruy Guerra now a Brazilian but born in Lourenço Marques now Maputo the capital of Mozambique filmed this extraordinary creation of liberated popular culture intercutting it with firsthand interviews on the massacre The mix is compelling and the grave yet joyous spectacle unique