History Handbooks in Mozambique: Circulation of Models and Knowledge Practices

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the formation of a Mozambican social thought in didactic handbooks. The analysis focuses on a history handbook in the specific format of exercises application, História. O meu caderno de actividades (History. My Activity Book), published in 2021 and aimed at the 9th grade class. Our main purpose is to discuss the conditions of national self-images production in the midst of a didactic narrative about the consequences of capitalism on colonization and slavery, with an emphasis on resistance struggles and on what post-independence social life became.