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Displaced by Cahora Bassa Dam

Though figures are disputed, the Cahora Bassa Dam displaced between 42,000 and 100,000 farmers in the early 1970s. Many of the displaced people were moved to planned residential communities called aldeamentos, which were intended to contain and control Indigenous African communities. These aldeamentos were surrounded by barbed wire fencing and meant to separate the population from guerilla forces fighting against the colonial government. Thousands more Indigenous African farmers were displaced from the highlands above the Zambezi River, where a segregated company town was constructed for the European dam workers.