Higher education systems and institutions, Mozambique

Abstract

The Republic of Mozambique is a country located in southeast Africa. It is bordered by South Africa and Swaziland to the southwest, Zimbabwe to the west, Zambia and Malawi to the northwest, and Tanzania to the north. With a surface area of roughly 800,000 square km and a rapidly expanding population roughly at 29.5 million, it is the second largest Portuguese-speaking country in Africa. Although Portuguese is the official language, most Mozambicans speak Bantu languages. As other Lusophone countries in Africa, Mozambique became independent in 1975 after a prolonged war with Portugal. After that, it had to endure an even longer civil war between former independentist movements which ended only in 1992. At the same time, between independence and the mid-1980s, the government of Mozambique experimented with socialism as a political and economic model of development and social construction. All of these factors have led the country to a desperate socioeconomic situation until...