History of the Metangula Naval Base: In context National Socio-Political and Patriotic

This work comes from the perspective of interpreting the importance and functionalities of the Portuguese Navy's Naval Base in Metangula in comparison with FRELIMO's Central Base in Mtamachi or Mbembe, in the context of the Colonial Struggle and the National Liberation Struggle.As categories and units of analysis, former combatants of the National Liberation Struggle who worked on the Niassa Front, elders who participated and others who simply witnessed the construction of the base, former and current employees of the Naval Base, teachers and students from secondary schools in the Metangula municipal area were integrated into the field research. The study area is the entire Western Niassa Front where the two strategic bases are located in the context of the National Liberation Struggle.Primary sources were used - interviews with the target population (former combatants of the National Liberation Struggle who worked on the Niassa Front who now live in the same municipality and others in the City of Lichinga, elders who participated in the construction of the base and others) as integrated informants during field data collection.