Today is Women’s Day in Mozambique. Also known as the National Day of Women, this day marks the anniversary of Josina Muthemba Machel’s death on April 7th 1971. Josina was a key figure in the struggle for the emancipation of African women.
When she was 19, Josina joined the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Josina received military training and rose through the ranks of FRELIMO to become the head of the party’s Department of Social Affairs in 1969, while still only 24. Josina was a strong advocate of the participation of women in the liberation struggle, and she was an icon for the Women’s Movement of Mozambique.
In 1969, she married Samora Machel, who would go on to become the first President of Mozambique in 1975. She died on April 7th 1971, at the age of 25 from liver cancer
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Lots of birthdays today including, in 1938, Spencer Dryden, American musician best known as drummer for Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage. With Jefferson Airplane he had the 1967 US No.18 single ‘White Rabbit’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
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