Monica Chitupila Explained

Office1:	Member of the People's Assembly
Term1:	1977–
Constituency1:	Maputo City

Monica Chitupila was a Mozambican independence activist and politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly.

Biography

Chitupila was originally from Niassa Province.^[1] She became involved in the independence struggle,^[2] starting her training in 1967 in Nachingwea and rising to become the Provincial Commander of the FRELIMO Female Detachment in Niassa.^[3] Chitupila was a FRELIMO candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections,^[4] in which she was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly.^[5] An employee of Fábrica Continental de Borracha,^[6] she was re-elected in 1986 and became the longest serving member of the FRELIMO central committee.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Samora Machel (1983) Defender a pátria, eliminar a fome--tarefa de todos os moçambicanos, p66
2. R. Joseph Parrot (2014) "Guerilla Grannies: How to Live in This World by Ike Bertels" African Studies Review, volume 57, number 1, pp246–248
3. Jonna Katto (2013) Grandma was a Guerrilla Fighter: Life Memories of the Women who Fought for Mozambique’s Independence in Northern Niassa
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=plZEAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA9-PA43 Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa
5. Mart Martin (2000) The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics, p267
6. https://gazettes.africa/archive/mz/1987/mz-government-gazette-series-i-supplement-no-4-dated-1987-09-22-no-37.pdf 4.° Suplemento