Samora Moisés Machel
1933 – 1986 Mozambique
politician
Who was Samora Moisés Machel?
Marxist revolutionary who led FRELIMO's armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule and became Mozambique's first president from 1975 until his death in a plane crash in 1986.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Samora Moisés Machel (CC BY-SA 4.0).