Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter - a podcast by BBC World Service

On February 3rd 1969, Eduardo Mondlane - the founder of FRELIMO, Mozambique’s Liberation Front against Portuguese colonial rule - was assassinated in a bomb attack in Tanzania. Mondlane started out as a teacher and academic, but his daughter Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane has been telling Rebecca Kesby why he swapped the university library for guerrilla warfare - and how it cost him his life.

PHOTO: Eduardo Mondlane in 1966 (Getty Images)

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