In Lourenço Marques, Moçambique, emerged with the colonial domination a social class composed by Negroes and mulattos, which little by little started to articulate themselves as a group and to make claims. From the moment they had a newspaper as a spokesperson on, they started to defend that schools should be built and that the education should be extended within the Colony because they believed that the population’s happiness would come from the education - the ultimate social emancipation source. To do so, they believed that the female education, women’s freedom factor, should be spread in relation to both the ancient and the modern customs. In a social environment marked by racism, the educational system would not differ and the student’s apartheid topic took the streets. From 1930 on, the New State made official this race separation by institutionalizing different levels of education based on the student’s skin color. This little Negro and mulatto bourgeoisie heavily reacted to these excluding laws since they thought the skin color should not be used as a way of judgment because it cannot tell one’s good or bad qualities.
Moçambique; Lourenço Marques; racism; racial discrimination; race; gender; education