Mozambique: Vuma launches two books that describe his seven years as president of the CTA

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Mozambique: Vuma launches two books that describe his seven years as president of the CTA

11:51 CAT | 14 Mar 2025

File photo: Screengrab / Agostinho Vuma IG

Businessman and politician Agostinho Vuma launched two books yesterday in the city of Maputo. These are “Public-Private Dialogue in Mozambique – Impact on the Economy and Guide for Investors” and “Leadership – Legacy of a Journey”.

The two works narrate the challenges faced by the author during his seven years as president of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA). Vuma says that the first work, “Public-Private Dialogue – Impact on the Economy and Guide to Investors”, conceived in 2018, narrates the processes of dialogue, meetings and joint trajectories between leaders of the past government and the private sector, with a focus on consensus in the construction of a business environment that favours the development and attractiveness of the national economy.

In the second work, “Leadership, Legacy of a Journey”, Vuma relives memories and emotions that are eternal in his existence. “The cover of “Leadership – Legacy of a Journey” has a particular meaning,” Vuma says. “It is a picture of the heavy burden that I have had to endure throughout the journey, particularly the last seven years. From the hardships of a boy of rural descent to the long and difficult journeys to access a school, I mention here that I was at UEM as a scholarship holder, a full scholarship, the financial limitations that lead many teenagers to seek their source of subsistence in informal trade and, thus, play an active role in the family economy, among others.”

In “Leadership, Legacy of a Journey”, Vuma also recounts his attempted murder in 2020, classifying the crime as an act of hate. “This is a matter that has had a profound impact on me and, for the benefit of the same society that scrutinises our journey, allow me to highlight that the main motivation for my failed homicide, of which I was a victim, was, without a doubt, the hatred, malice, envy, bad character and awareness of failure of the perpetrator who saw death as the only way to end a journey that will always prove to be a successive one in future journeys,” Vuma recalls.

Agostinho Vuma warns that “this could be the case with all those who aspire to be leaders. The journey can be an ordeal of persecution, bullying and various manifestations of hatred, envy and malice, capable of leaving marks of pain and feelings of revolt to stop the pace.

There will always be those who reject themselves and look at their failures and inabilities as caused because they overcome them through their leadership and success. Never allow bullying, envy, resentment, or malice to do the same to you. They can, yes, pause and question, like the firefly I mentioned, the reasons for the irreverence and persistence of the persecutions of the various serpents that try to interrupt their path, but they never give up on their purpose of continuing to shine”.

The two works hit the shelves under the seal of the publisher Afrobooks and were presented by Salimo Abdula and Fernando Couto, both businessmen.

The launch ceremony was attended by several personalities, politicians and businesspeople. There follow some quotes from those attending.

Luísa Diogo

“Public-private dialogue between the public and private sectors is a fundamental issue for
the country to move forward quickly enough, and that is why I actively participated in this. It
is good to see that there are legacies that prevail and are enriched, the dialogue that is being held now, the effort that is being made by the current government and the CTA, this amazes me and inspires me more and more. I’m pleased to see that what we started back then has now turned into a solid thing. Agostinho Vuma’s mandate was one of consolidation.”

Silvino Moreno

“It was a period in which Agostinho Vuma worked as president of the CTA, and I believe that, due to the dynamism of the economy, and the way in which the CTA intervened throughout this time, I believe that the works must have good content.”

Salimo Abdula

“He leaves behind an experience, which is an interesting legacy, I am talking about the experience he accumulated throughout his life, but mainly during his seven-year career as president of the CTA, in public-private dialogue, in the exposure of figures who become public and are then not prepared. We have to prepare ourselves as human beings, and when we become public figures, as I say, when the tree grows, the more wind it picks up. So, when dealing with envy, bullying, a series of things that we are not prepared for, then we become depressed.”

Fernando Couto

“Vuma, as I said, was born into a modest family, he did his education at his own expense, he did not come from any private school, from any school abroad, and he is the person he is at the moment, especially for young entrepreneurs, they must realize that, in their path as entrepreneurs, there are good times and difficult times.”

Source: O País