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Mozambique: Tânia Tomé wants to transform the world by making leaders
10:34 CAT | 11 Nov 2020
“My passion is to empower people, entrepreneurs and leaders”. [File photo: Moz24h]
Economist, motivational speaker, entrepreneur and author Tânia Tomé is getting ready to launch two books – ‘Conversations With A Ghost 2.0’ [Conversas com a Sombra 2.0] and ‘Succenergy’ (third edition) – on November 11th.
In an interview with Voice of America, she described ‘Conversations With A Ghost 2.0’, published by Chiado, as a novel of the inner self and the conversations that we must have in order to discover ourselves as an individual. “Succenergy” is a personal development book, with techniques and principles that help to activate success within the person. The books will be available in online stores and also in bookstores in Brazil and Portugal.
Tomé has travelled the world giving lectures and training courses, primarily in Uganda, Rwanda, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique and the USA.
Within a few weeks, she will share the stage with Brian Tracy and Dede Momodou at the “Training in Leadership and Performance” event on December 10th and 11th.
“This is the first time that an event of this magnitude has seen the participation of a person from PALOP [Portuguese-speaking African countries]. And we want to extend access so that everyone in the Portuguese-speaking world has access to this training,” she said.
Success
In 2018, Tânia Tomé was named by Mipad New York as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the world, of African origin and under 40 years old. She has also received national and international awards, such as an honorary diploma from the Presidency of Mozambique and an Academic Merit Award for Portugal-Africa by the former president of Portugal, Mário Soares. She was distinguished by the then American President Barack Obama as a Young African Leaders Initiative network Young African Leader.
“I faithfully believe that we all have success within us. Unfortunately, we have not learned rules and principles of properly managing our energy and having enough motivation to fight for our dreams until we win,” the ‘Succenergy’ author explains.
Tomé said she was always aware of where she wanted to go and what she wanted to be. “We need to be strong to carry on. The challenges are there for us to overcome,” she says. “I have a slogan: ‘For the worst challenges, the best flights’. It is only in the challenge that we learn our potential.”
Racism and prejudice
Tânia Tomé said that she suffered from racism and prejudice while studying in Portugal. Although she was one of the best students in the class and the first to answer teachers’ questions, she had to hear from a philosophy teacher that “even Tânia can answer this question”.
“This way of speaking already shows prejudice, it already has racism, even if it is not with malice,” she recounts.
Tomé also tells of how she endured embarrassing situations like people stepping away from her on the bus, or being flirted with while trying to sell a quality product.
But how does Tânia Tomé fight against prejudice, racism and disrespect? By building her ‘defence muscle’.
“I have an aspect within my philosophy of life, and the philosophy of “Succenergy”, whereby I try not to victimise myself in the situations that I face in different contexts. I have always got used to entering on the positive side, to understand the context and to try fighting in other ways,” she explains.
“The way to win is to show that we are capable and to invest in knowledge and education.”
Source: Voa Portugues
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