Political cosmovision of contemporary Mozambique
Josué Bila Professor Elísio Macamo has helped many of us to reflect, in a refined way, on the difference between observation and analysis. Last week, he unleashed his sociological arsenal on us, criticizing Joseph Hanlon's latest book, entitled ‘Mozambique Recolonised through Corruption: How the IMF created an oligarchic state’. Personally, I recognize the importance of Hanlon's work in the descriptive field and in the bibliographic material, which I will cite in the coming months in a paper I am writing. I also recognize that the criticism that sociologist Macamo is receiving makes sense, according to which journalist Hanlon did his work as an investigative journalist, not as a social scientist. Nevertheless, regardless of the supposed inconvenience of Macamo's criticism, I recognize his sociological role in deepening and problematizing Mozambican issues, from which he has helped many social science researchers to sophisticate their methodologies and refin...