Iva Maria Cabral

Historiadora

[Carlos Lopes @LopesInsights]

🍫 Africa grows the cocoa. 💰 Others help set the price.
Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire’s move to align cocoa producer prices is a reminder of a bigger challenge: why are commodities produced in Africa still priced elsewhere and largely on buyers’ terms?

🤝 Collective action is a start.
🏭 Local value addition is essential.
📈 Pricing power must follow production power.

Africa cannot keep supplying the world while remaining a price taker. 🌍

https://t.co/XnMpqmTYGc

[Iva Maria Cabral @CabralIva]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

“Tenemos el honor de haber puesto nuestro granito de arena en la lucha por la liberación de las colonias imperialistas en el África y participar en la lucha contra una de las formas más detestables de injusticia y de opresión, como fue el apartheid en Sudáfrica.”

Fidel Castro.

[🇬🇼𝓙𝓪𝓲𝓻 𝓭𝓸𝓼 𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓼🇬🇼🇸🇳🇬🇲🇬🇳 @Hypercutt]

A report reveals Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau as major hubs for cocaine trafficking to Europe. Discrete Atlantic routes bypass controls, flooding the European market. Record seizure of 30.2 tons of drugs on the high seas. #DrugTrafficking #Security #WestAfrica

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🚨🇵🇸 Kuzey Gaza'daki gazeteciler dünyaya doğrudan hitap ediyor: "İsrail'in Palestinlileri ölüme asma yasası Nazilerden daha kötü."

Bu videoyu görürseniz, lütfen farkındalık için yeniden yayınlayın.

[Iva Maria Cabral @CabralIva]

@yousef_ki1 ..

[Dr. Yousef 🇵🇸 @yousef_ki1]

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[Paroles d'auteurs @Paroles_auteurs]

Sur la peur – Khalil Gibran

"On dit que, juste avant d’entrer dans la mer,
une rivière tremble de peur.
Elle regarde en arrière le chemin qu’elle a parcouru,
depuis les sommets des montagnes,
la longue route sinueuse à travers forêts et villages.
Et devant elle,
elle voit un océan si vaste
que s’y engager
revient à disparaître à jamais.
Mais il n’y a pas d’autre choix.
La rivière ne peut pas faire demi-tour.
Personne ne peut revenir en arrière.
Reculer est impossible dans l’existence.
La rivière doit prendre le risque
d’entrer dans l’océan,
car ce n’est qu’alors que la peur disparaîtra,
car c’est là que la rivière comprendra
qu’il ne s’agit pas de disparaître dans l’océan,
mais de devenir l’océan."

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Thomas Sankara drove the cheapest car in the country as President of Burkina Faso. He declined to have his portrait hung in public places, rejected air conditioners in his office, and lowered his monthly salary to $450.

He was the most powerful man in his country yet chose to live like the people. Sankara did not perform humility; he practiced it as policy.

While African presidents collected state mansions, motorcades, and Swiss bank accounts, Sankara drove a Renault 5—the cheapest car on the Burkinabe market. He banned his portrait from public buildings, refused air conditioning in his office, and capped his salary at $450 a month.

This was not symbolism but a sharp political statement that made every other African leader uncomfortable. When one man in power lives without excess, it exposes all who do not.

Sankara understood that the real currency of leadership is moral authority, not material display. He vaccinated 2.5 million children in one week, planted millions of trees to fight desertification, and achieved all this on an embarrassingly small budget.

They assassinated him at 37 and erased him from history.

What does it say about a continent’s future when its most disciplined leaders are always the ones removed?

References: Thomas Sankara Speaks (Pathfinder Press, 1988) | BBC Africa — "Thomas Sankara: The upright man" (2017)

[Carlos Lopes @LopesInsights]

Estarei em Luanda para um diálogo organizado pelo Grupo Executive e o CEJES, da Universidade Agostinho Neto. Moderação dos Professores José Octávio Serra Van-Dunem, Presidente do Conselho Económico e Social e Alves da Rocha, da Universidade Católica de Angola. Junte-se a nós.

[Communist Party ☭ @CPBritain]

Today marks the centenary of the birth of Norma Jeane Mortenson, the woman the world knew as Marilyn Monroe.

While the bourgeois press continues to gape at the ghost of a manufactured icon, the Communist Party of Britain reclaims the intellectual and the comrade.

Her politics were born of the assembly line. From the foster homes of Los Angeles to the Radioplane munitions factory, Monroe’s class consciousness was forged in the heat of proletarian survival. She was a woman of fierce intelligence, possessing an IQ that dwarfed the men who sought to manage her, yet she was reduced to a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded by the parasitic studio system.

The FBI files, which tracked her until her final breath, confirm what the establishment feared - a sex symbol who had read Marx and admired the Chinese Revolution. She was a militant anti-racist who used her platform to shatter the colour bar for Ella Fitzgerald, and she stood firm against the cowardice of the McCarthyite witch hunts when she married the blacklisted playwright Arthur Miller.

We must recognise that Monroe’s struggle was the intersection of class exploitation and patriarchal violence. She was a worker whose labour was her own body, super-exploited by a system that demanded she be beautiful and silent. Her life was a constant act of rebellion against the male gaze of capital. On her 100th birthday, we do not celebrate a "bombshell". We honour a clear-minded socialist who understood that the liberation of her class was inseparable from the liberation of her sex.

Happy Centenary, Comrade Marilyn. The struggle continues.

#MarilynMonroe

[Miguel de Barros @debarros_miguel]

Que conhecimentos foram abandonados quando os mapas foram desenhados? Quem continua a (re)produzi-lo? Herdamos história de urbanização pós-colonial com dinâmicas semelhantes - segregação territorial, economias vibrantes informalizadas, mas onde a cultura é infraestrutura cívica.

[Iva Maria Cabral @CabralIva]

@yousef_ki1 ..

[Miguel de Barros @debarros_miguel]

02.06.26| 10:00 – 10:30| “Desplazar el mundo. Imaginar futuros desde los márgenes”. Periferias geográficas, linguísticas, sociais — não como margens, mas como territórios férteis de criação, pensamento e transformação. Miguel de Barros e Eva Orúe
Local: Feira do Livro de Madrid

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

El gobierno Boliviano del agente de la CIA, Rodrigo Paz ha iniciado una brutal reprensión a su pueblo, el ejército está disparando a mansalva, por favor difundir que este delito no quede en la obscuridad, que el algoritmo no lo oculte #RTMasivo

Todo el apoyo y nuestra solidaridad al hermano pueblo Boliviano
#FuerzaBolivia
##RodrigoPazRenunciaYa 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[Carlos Lopes @LopesInsights]

ENTREVISTA DO DIA DE AFRICA, RTP AFRICA, 25 Maio 26
Nesta entrevista à Paula Borges falo sobretudo da figura do nacionalista Mário de Andrade.
👇🗣https://t.co/yuDSVbNjfC

[Minister: International Relations and Cooperation @RonaldLamola]

Carlos Lopes, a leading development economist and a fervent voice for Africa’s transformation, reminds us that:

“The current global disorder presents an opportunity for power to be exercised in new ways. But the window will not stay open forever. The rules will be rewritten. The only question is: will Africa be one of the authors?”

We will #SADC rewrite the rules or we will allow the patterns of extraction to continue in-spite of our endowment of critical minerals.
#SADCRetreat
#SADCSA

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Comparto este video que lanzaron ayer Silvio Rodríguez y Chico Buarque; los fondos que se recaben serán donados a la Sala de Pediatría del Instituto de Oncología de Cuba, así que si queréis verlo, darle like y compartirlo con otras personas, es un pequeño grano de arena para aliviar la difícil situación en que se encuentran.
El vídeo es precioso y presenta esa Habana tan digna como empobrecida.
https://t.co/AVk6LbJAI7

[Iva Maria Cabral @CabralIva]

@yousef_ki1 ....

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Denmark is protesting the spread of this video. Let's make this go viral all around the world."