Dar es Salaam, March 30 -- IF you grew up in the glorious analogue age— back when TV remotes were human children and salt was stored in recycled Blue Band containers—then you probably know the name Samora Moisés Machel.

Revolutionary, liberator and first president of an independent Mozambique, Samora didnt just fight colonialism.

He roasted it, stirred it with socialism and served it piping hot with a side of moral discipline.

And when he shouted “A luta continua!” (the struggle continues), it wasnt a call for match-postponing or a 90-minute sulking contests.

It was a battle cry for freedom, integrity and the end of oppressive nonsense.

Which is why, today, from the hallowed soil of Africa where his bones...