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Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane(photo below) born 20 June 1920 – 3 February 1969) was a Mozambican revolutionary and anthropologist who was the founder of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). He served as the FRELIMO's first leader until his assassination in 1969 in Tanzania. An anthropologist by profession, Mondlane also worked as a history and sociology professor at Syracuse University(NY) before returning to Mozambique in 1963.

Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane - widely hailed as the father of Mozambique's independence movement - was killed on this day in 1969 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, by a bomb that had been concealed in a book sent to him. The assassination was the work of the Portuguese colonial authorities, who'd been incensed by his anti-colonial activities.