THE MIDDLE CLASS IN MOZAMBIQUE, the state and the politics of transformation in Southern Africa

174pp., illus., maps, paperback, Reprint, Cambridge (2018) 2020

"Jason Sumich provides a wonderfully textured analysis of the contradictory nature of Mozambique's middle class. Although remaining highly dependent upon the party-state and a primary beneficiary of its rule since independence, Mozambique's small middle class is nonetheless increasingly disillusioned by Frelimo's betrayal of the promise of independence. This text provides a wonderful addition to the burgeoning study of the African middle class." Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand 

Political anthropologist Jason Sumich teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex.