This work deal with the life of Eduardo Mondlane. Born in Manjacaze in 1920, he was the son of a chief of a Tsonga tribe, of Bantu language and culture. According to himself, his mother insisted for him to study “so as to better master the spell of white men and fight against it”. He studied in a Swiss Calvinist school in the south of Mozambique and later in Lourenço Marques (present-day Maputo), where he founded in 1949 the NESAM (African students high school nucleus). Then he went to South Africa, but a strong apartheid system lead him back to Mozambique. In 1950 he went to Lisbon to study philosophical and historical sciences. A year later he entered Oberlin College, in the USA, from where he graduated. In 1954 he went, as an assistant, to the Roosevelt University in Chicago, and three years later he started to work to UN. In 1960 he does a MA and PhD in sociology and anthropology in the Northwestern University in Evanston, USA, where he was also a teacher. In 1969 he was killed by an explosive sent to his house through the mail.