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“PALOPs Should Take Inspiration from Cape Verde’s Example of Governance” – Graça Machel

“PALOPs Should Take Inspiration from Cape Verde’s Example of Governance” – Graça Machel

Mozambican social activist Graça Machel highlighted today, September 12, in Praia, the “serene, dynamic and stable” governance of Cape Verde and suggested that some of those “good examples” should be shared by the other Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP).

Speaking to journalists after an audience with the President of the Republic of Cape Verde, José Maria Neves, the social activist began by welcoming the “very serene, very open, dynamic and stable” governance of the archipelago.

Stressing the “remarkable successes” in development, she said that the other Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP) should share these experiences and these trajectories, “so that some of Cape Verde’s good examples can also inspire Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe,” she said, reiterating the alternation of governance and stability in the Cape Verdean archipelago.

“Cape Verde is already considered a country of medium development, the only one in the PALOP countries that has reached this level, and this was achieved not on the basis of very large natural resources as is the case in other countries, but having invested very well in the development of human capital, which has been able to innovate, transform, lead the state institutions, the economy and society to reach the levels that it has been reaching,” he said.

Despite the successes, he noted that Cape Verde still has challenges, such as eliminating social inequalities, reducing poverty or achieving gender equality.

“There is no stage of development that is perfect, it is necessary to build on what has already been achieved and do better,” she suggested.

Graça Machel is in Cape Verde at the invitation of the Prime Minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva, and participated on Saturday in a conversation with the head of government on issues of development, education, gender equality and the fight against poverty.

The conversation, which took place at the Resistance Museum, at the former Tarrafal concentration camp on Santiago island, was part of CV Next, an event to promote science, technology and innovation and to project Cape Verde into the future, promoted by the government.

During this afternoon, she is also a special guest of the Pedro Pires Institute for Leadership (IPP) to talk about the challenges of female leadership, an initiative that takes place on the day of the birth of Amílcar Cabral, in 1924 (if he were alive he would have been 98 years old; he was assassinated on 20 January 1973).

Graça Machel said that being in Cape Verde on the day of the birth of Amílcar Cabral is a “brilliant coincidence” and a “spiritual pilgrimage” to be in the land also of Aristides Pereira and Pedro Pires.

Questioned on how she sees the valorisation of the figure of Amílcar Cabral in the country and in the world, the social activist understood that there is still a lot of space that is not being used for this purpose, considering that it is necessary to introduce the values he represents in State and educational institutions, especially universities.

“All peoples must have their solidity and stability rooted in their own values and internalise what they are. The world offers references, but the greatest references have to be national,” he argued.

Amilcar Cabral was the founder of the then African Party for the Independence of Guinea (PAIGC), which in Cape Verde gave way to the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV), and leader of independence movements in both countries.

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