The biography of the assassinated journalist Carlos Cardoso by Paul Fauvet and Marcelo Mosse has been published in English in South Africa. The title is “Carlos Cardoso: Telling the Truth in Mozambique”. The price is 120 Rand, about 18 US dollars or 13 british pounds.
There are two ways to buy the book. It can be purchased on the internet from www.kalahari.net Note the name is misspelled as “cardosa” on that website, so it is easier to search on Fauvet.
Or it can be purchased by e-mail directly from the publisher Doublestorey. E-mail to Carmen Timm on [email protected] giving name and address credit card number expiry date visa/master etc 3 digits on back of the credit card and say if you want the book by air (5 days, about R120 shipping cost) or surface (5 weeks, about R70)
Carlos Cardoso – Telling the Truth in Mozambique
Paul Fauvet and Marcelo Mosse
“This is a fitting tribute to a character who brought that mixture of passion, commitment, caring, curiosity, impatience with authority and disdain for orthodoxy which makes for great journalism and accounts for the deep mark Carlos made across the sub-continent.”
Anton Harber: founder, Mail & Guardian
On 22 November 2000 Carlos Cardoso, arguably the finest of post-independence Mozambican journalists, was assassinated in Maputo while investigating the theft of 14 million US dollars from the country’s largest bank. His death sent shock waves through Mozambican society. Who was this man? Why did powerful interests want to silence him? In this compelling biography, two former colleagues tell the story of this remarkable journalist and Mozambican.
“This book is a tribute on a scale appropriate to Carlos Cardoso. It is a precious document, which succeeds in combining the story of a man with the history of the times in which he lived. The book is a window for understanding the complexities of the last 30 years of a nation that made an original attempt to find its place in the world. Fauvet and Mosse bring back to life the man who was one of the most creative of those who imagined this new Mozambique.”
Mia Couto
“Carlos Cardoso has this particular quality – when we look at him we see everything clear and transparent. Few of us have this quality, this purity. He is a man of causes. So he is man who can see further ahead than the rest of us. And when we go into battle, in a formation that has its hierarchies and positions, since Cardoso is carrying the standard, he is more easily targeted.”
José Luis Cabaco.
About the author
Paul Fauvet worked in the Mozambique News Agency (AIM) under Carlos Cardoso in the 1980s. He is currently head of the Agencys English desk and editor of its monthly magazine, Mozambiquefile. Marcelo Mosse was recruited by Carlos Cardoso in 1992 and worked with him on Metical and on Mediafax, which he edited after Cardosos death. He was responsible for Mediafaxs reporting on the trial of Cardoso’s murderers.
Publication Detail
ISBN : 1-919930-31-0
Dimensions : 212 x 136 mm
Page Extent : 368 pp
Binding : Paperback
Illustrations : Half-tone photos
Publication Date : October 2003
Rights : English-language world rights
