Samora Machel

✶September 29, 1933

†October 19, 1986

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About their life

Samora Moisés Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in the 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 plane crash which killed 34 people, including several Mozambican ministers and government officials. Machel was a socialist in the tradition of Marxism–Leninism.

President of Mozambique from 1975 to 1986

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Biography from the article Samora Machel on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.