Country: Mozambique
Group: Ndau
Date: Nov. 30th, 2020
Team: Rebekah Kamer (Lead), Zeenat Hammond, Vianney Mancilla
There is limited information about the Ndau ethnicity group in Mozambique making the data quality rating a 1. However, it is possible that the group has faced forced labor. Many ethnic groups in Mozambique live in forced labor conditions and the Ndau inhabit these same conditions. It is possible that the Ndau had been subjected to forced labor under the Islam-ruling powers in the nineteenth century and/or the European ruling powers afterwar in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century. In the 1940s to 1950s, under the Portuguese many of the Africans in Mozambique were underpaid and completed very arduous work. The workers were bound to the contracts for six months and described as “contratados” or “forced worker.”
Sources
- Guthrie, Z. (2016). Forced Volunteers: The Complexities of Coercion in Central Mozambique, 1942-1961. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 49(2), 195-212. Retrieved November 15, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/44715474