User:Aguerrero427/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRELIMO

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to review this article because I am interested in the anti-colonial and national liberation organizations in nations that were formerly colonies of Portugal. I specifically chose to focus on FRELIMO because I had heard that women played an important role in the military campaigns of FRELIMO and implementing the social programs within FRELIMO-controlled areas during the war of independence. After skimming this page, I saw that the content on women in FRELIMO is severely underdeveloped. Adding to this page, and to the subject of women in FRELIMO specifically, is an important task in covering the gap in knowledge on Lusophone Africa, particularly the roles that women played in shaping these countries in the present day.

Evaluate the article
The article covers a broad range of topics that are mostly related to the independence and civil war periods of Mozambique. Within the lead section, the reader is made clear where the article will take us. While nothing in the section mentions topics that are not covered in the page, I think it would be best to rewrite the part on relations with the USSR and China, given that this is not expanded upon later in the article; this tidbit of information ends up feeling more confusing than it is useful context.

One main concern I had with the page is that the scope of it is limited to FRELIMO's wartime activities/campaigns. While this makes sense given the subject matter, I think it could be productive and informative to expand on topics that aren’t specifically focused on wartime operations (though of course they can and likely will be related to this to some degree). Here I’m thinking of topics such as: women members, soldiers or leaders, in FRELIMO; internal debates within the party surrounding ideological and political stances adopted by the party; diplomatic relations with other nations and especially national liberation movements in Africa, especially those who were also fighting against Portugal; more detailed historical work on the formation of FRELIMO and the individuals and organizations behind its creation. From reviewing the references list, it seems that at least some information regarding most if not all of these topics can be found in sources that were already cited.

Some aspects of the article that I noticed were done well were the structure of the topics and the lack of uncited claims. The layout of the article makes intuitive sense; the only thing I would change is making two large umbrella sections that say "pre-indepedence FRELIMO" and "post-independence FRELIMO".