Mozambican social activist Graça Machel highlighted yesterday, in Praia, the "serene, dynamic and stable" governance of Cape Verde and suggested sharing some of these "good examples" with 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 hailing the "very serene, very open, dynamic and stable" governance of the archipelago.

Highlighting the "remarkable successes" in development, he 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 São Tomé and Príncipe," he sustained, reiterating the alternation in governance and stability in the Cape Verde archipelago.

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

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, you have to build on what you have already achieved and make the best of it," he 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, in the former concentration camp of Tarrafal, in Santiago Island, was framed in the CV Next, an event to promote science, technology and innovation and to project Cape Verde for the future, promoted by the Government.

During yesterday afternoon, she was a special guest of the Pedro Pires Institute for Leadership (IPP) to talk about the challenges of female leadership, which takes place on the day of Amílcar Cabral's birth, in 1924, and if he were alive he would be 98 years old (he was assassinated on January 20th, 1973).

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

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

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

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