What is the importance of President Lula's trip to Africa in 2023?

What is the importance of President Lula's trip to Africa in 2023? Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of professionals who enter the coaching proposition, tutors and mentors, invest hours in studies on national and international scenarios to contribute with their advisors and mentors in reading the facts and events that unfold in the global world. Learning to read the world is a challenge. Sometimes we find ourselves entangled in the use of stereotyped or even ideologized lenses and filters. This behavior can make our professional path, from entrepreneurship to academics, a limiting or resulting factor by promoting the process of mental blocks that restrict our personal development, and, consequently, the development of the nation. Briefly, as this analysis deserves to be deepened, three topics are outlined that seek to break the bubble of a stereotyped or ideologized reading and present elements for reflection. In the context of supporting our decision-making. BRICS in South Africa The BRICS have already consolidated themselves as a world power: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The economic strength in GDP of these five countries exceeds the G7 (club of the richest countries in the world), composed of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and United States of America. Just analyzing this fact already makes us question, where should we direct our studies, do we have to include Mandarin as a foreign language in our portfolio? Have we researched how to import or export to BRICS countries? And, in university exchange, would attending a specialization, a sandwich scholarship, or a congress in these countries add job opportunities, entrepreneurship, and networking to my curriculum? But not only that. More than 40 countries applied to join the BRICS club. In this last deliberative plenary, with the presence of the President of Brazil, Luís Ignácio Lula da Silva, its components approved the entry of six more countries: United Arab Emirates (headquarters in Dubai, oil); Saudi Arabia (oil); Iran (oil power); Egypt (Africa and manager of the Suez Canal); Ethiopia (Africa and emerging nation) and Argentina (Spanish speaking and South America). With 11 countries in its composition, it becomes one of the most important organizations of the multipolar concept and of world geopolitics. Brazil and Angola Economic Forum Following the BRICS meeting, the president of the Republic of Brazil traveled to Luanda, capital of Angola. In this country, he promotes terms of cooperation with the president of Angola, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. It assumes the commitment to install a Consulate General of Brazil in the country, in charge of commercial and business negotiations, among which agribusiness and Brazilian industries will benefit greatly, in addition to serving the more than 30,000 Brazilians residing in this country, the largest Brazilian community in Africa. In another dynamic, the president strengthened the Brazil-Angola Economic Forum, with the stimulus and increase of imports and exports. PALOP and Sao Tome and Principe PALOP, Portuguese-speaking African countries, and CPLP, community of Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste), are organizations of long-formalized exchanges. In this country, São Tomé and Príncipe, Brazil carries out a diplomatic initiative that heats up the intertwining between these important nations, in meetings of heads of state. Alberto N. Pereira, Minister of Foreign Affairs of São Tomé and Príncipe comments on the event: “The world increasingly belongs to young people and it is up to them to have the great responsibility of transforming it, however, it is our duty to preserve it”. Odair Marques da Silva, www.africaatual.com.br