Ana Cabral was born in Maputo, in the Meshangalene neighborhood. in childhood, he spent the vacation period with his paternal grandparents in Inhambane and with his maternal grandparents in manica. he had a boyish childhood, loose and happy in an environment where sports were practiced and music was learned. completed primary education at the “7 de Setembro” School. He started his secondary education at “Francisco Manyanga” and finished it at Colégio “Delta”, in the city of Maputo. He soon had an inclination towards History under the influence of Professor Chicane regarding his entry into UfICS he explained to us that “there was a time when I started to enjoy reading. I remember reading a book by ngungi Wationgo, a renowned Kenyan writer, when I decided to enter the social sciences. at the time, the small home library was full of African authors”.

Her university studies started without any mastery of what the courses were, it was her friend Hélder Timana who influenced her and convinced her to follow the social area. the first years of university were a delight because “I met new colleagues. I had the opportunity to understand the greatness and diversity of the country through my colleagues. I realized that we are a cultural mosaic; that there were different ways of conceiving life and facing the world. It was an interesting experience. I remember, even today, Professor Fernando Ganhão who, when he entered the room, would get up and stand at attention. UFICS showed me the real dimension of the country”. Dfter the common trunk (Introduction to Social Sciences) he decided to study sociology because he thought it was a more holistic, more comprehensive discipline. In 2005, when he started writing for the end of the course, he participated in meetings with marcelo mosse, Adriano nuvunga and Edson Cortez, where they talked about the possibility of creating an organization that could work around social science concepts combined with investigative journalism. These were meetings that took place in various places in the city. it was in these meetings that he decided to be part of the founding nucleus of the Center for Public Integrity.

We wanted to know how she saw the work of the CIP over the last 15 years and told us that “I am convinced that it is a watershed: there is a history of the Mozambican public administration before the ciP and there is a different history of the Mozambican public administration after the ciP. this CSO knew how to create conditions to provide citizens with information that led them to think about society in a critical way. ciP is incisive because it exposes the cases and shows evidence”, he concluded.