Indo-Mozambicans in Maputo, 1947-1992

Nafeesah Allen is a multi-lingual author, independent researcher, editor, and contributing writer for internationally recognized magazines and journals. Having completed her PhD in Forced Migration at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, her academic research centers on the politics of identity amongst post-colonial African and Indian Diasporas. She specialises in Iberian and Lusophone histories, as well as race and social policy.

• Part I. Before the Beginning.- 1. Introduction and Methodology.- 2. Who are Indo-Mozambicans? A Chronology of Shifting Geography and Terminology.- 3. Conflating Space and Time in the Process of National Myth-making.- Part II. Religion, Race and Migration, 1947-1992.- 4. A Brief Oral History of Indo-Mozambican Life from 1947-1992.- 5. Indo-Mozambican Institutions: Hindu Interactions with the State.- 6. Muslims: The Making of the Self and Others among Transnational Merchants, 1961-1992.- 7. Mixed Race Belonging in Black Majority Spaces: Mulatto, Mestiço or Misto.- Part III. Concluding Thoughts on Post-coloniality.- 8. Malleable Identities & Imagined Communities in Contemporary Africa.