A Passion for Land - biography

The biography, stylistically written in the genre of the anti-colonial liberation literature of the 1960s, would have been criticised for its clinical descriptiveness, lacking balance in the emotional content that western writing has trained the reader to accept as the central part of the life of any person who has been involved in public life of any sort.

I had first met Guebuza through the accolades accorded to him by members of the Southern African Students Movement who wanted to rekindle the spirit of the liberation movement in South Africa, without which no part of the region would have been truly free.