freedom fighters, liberation fighters, nelson mandela and samora machel, but you yourself joined frelimo yourself, joined the liberation struggle at the age of 23, i think, if i'm not mistaken, in your own country, mozambique. tell me what brought you to that struggle, how you helped wage it, and what that experience tells you about what you're telling me now -- the commitment to democracy, the commitment to people's rights -- you know, keeping the promise of those struggles. >> i was a student when i joined frelimo because i believed that it was the single organization which represented the deepest aspirations of the majority of mozambicans to attain. >> and that was the time when you were trying to get rid of colonial rule. >> exactly. it was for colonial rule, which we succeeded. and the first years of our independence, actually, they were galvanizing in terms of bringing from top and to grassroots and all sectors of society to build a common dream of what we wanted mozambique to become, and i think it did work. >> you're a pretty mean shot with an ak-47. i mean, you weren't just sort